David_Widder

David Widder

David Widder

American mathematician

David Vernon Widder (25 March 1898 – 8 July 1990) was an American mathematician. He earned his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1924 under George Birkhoff and went on to join the faculty there.

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He was a co-founder of the Duke Mathematical Journal and the author of the textbook Advanced Calculus (Prentice-Hall, 1947).[1] He wrote also The Laplace transform[2] (in which he gave a first solution to Landau's problem on the Dirichlet eta function),[3] An introduction to transform theory,[4] and The convolution transform (co-author with I. I. Hirschman).

References

  1. [1]
    Stenger, Allen (September 16, 2015). "Review of Advanced Calculus by David V. Widder". MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.
  2. [2]
    Stenger, Allen (July 19, 2011). "Review of The Laplace Transform by David Vernon Widder". MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.
  3. [3]
    Widder, D.V. (2015). Laplace Transform (PMS-6). Princeton Mathematical Series, No. 6. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1-4008-7645-7. (pbk reprint of 1941 1st edition)
  4. [4]
    Stenger, Allen (January 29, 2015). "Review of An Introduction to Transform Theory by David V. Widder". MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.
  • A Century of Mathematics in America by Peter L. Duren and Richard Askey, American Mathematical Society, 1988, ISBN 0-8218-0130-9.
  • A History of the Second Fifty Years, American Mathematical Society 1939-1988 By Everett Pitcher, American Mathematical Society, 1988, ISBN 0-8218-0125-2.


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