David Widder
American mathematician
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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.
Born25 March 1898
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, US
Died8 July 1990 (aged 92)
AlmamaterHarvard University
FieldsMathematics
David Widder | |
|---|---|
| Born | 25 March 1898 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, US |
| Died | 8 July 1990 (aged 92) |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Harvard University |
| Doctoral advisor | George D. Birkhoff |
| Doctoral students | Gerald G. Bilodeau R. Creighton Buck Ralph P. Boas, Jr. Solomon W. Golomb Deborah Tepper Haimo I. I. Hirschman Donald J. Newman Harry Pitt Harry Pollard |
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).
