Edwin Bidwell Wilson (April 25 1879 ? December 28 1964) was a mathematician and polymath. He was the sole protegé of Yale's physicist Josiah Willard Gibbs and was mentor to Harvard economist Paul Samuelson.^[1] He received his AB from Harvard College in 1899 and his PhD from Yale University in 1901, working under Gibbs.^[2]

E.B. Wilson compiled the textbook Vector Analysis, based on Gibbs' lectures, as Gibbs was at the time busy preparing his book on thermodynamics.

References

1. ↑ How I Became an Economist by Paul A. Samuelson, 1970 Laureate in Economics, 5 September 2003
2. ↑ Edwin Bidwell Wilson biography

• Jerome Hunsaker and Saunders MacLane (1973) Biographical Memoirs v. 43, pp.285-320, National Academy of Sciences of USA.
• Vector Analysis: A Text-book for the Use of Students of Mathematics and Physics, (based upon the lectures of Willard Gibbs) by Edwin Bidwell Wilson, published 1902.
• Advanced Calculus by Edwin Bidwell Wilson, published 1912.
• Aeronautics: A Class Text By Edwin Bidwell Wilson, published 1920.

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