Edwin Wilson

Edwin Bidwell Wilson

Born: 25 April 1879 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Died: 28 Dec 1964 in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA

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Edwin Wilson was a student of Gibbs and produced a textbook on vector analysis based on Gibbs' lectures. In 1912 he published the first American advanced calculus text.

Wilson also worked on aeronautics, probability and statistics. he was the first to study confidence intervals, later rediscovered by Neyman.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. J Hunsaker and S MacLane, Edwin Bidwell Wilson, Biographical Memoirs. National Academy of Sciences 43 (1973), 285-320.
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