Edwin Bidwell Wilson (April 25, 1879 – December 28, 1964) was an American mathematician, statistician, physicist and general polymath. He was the sole protégé of Yale University physicist Josiah Willard Gibbs and was mentor to MIT economist Paul Samuelson. Wilson had a distinguished academic career at Yale and MIT, followed by a long and distinguished period of service as a civilian employee of the US Navy in the Office of Naval Research. In his latter role, he was awarded the Distinguished Civilian Service Award, the highest honorary award available to a civilian employee of the US Navy. Wilson made broad contributions to mathematics, statistics and aeronautics, and is well known for producing a number of widely used textbooks. He is perhaps best known for his derivation of the eponymously named Wilson score interval, which is a confidence interval used widely in statistics. He was also the first managing editor of The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). (From Wikipedia) More about Edwin Bidwell Wilson:
| | Books by Edwin Bidwell Wilson: Additional books by Edwin Bidwell Wilson in the extended shelves: Wilson, Edwin Bidwell, 1879-1964: Advanced calculus; a text upon select parts of differential calculus, differential equations, integral calculus, theory of functions; with numerous exercises (Ginn and Company, 1912) (page images at HathiTrust) Wilson, Edwin Bidwell, 1879-1964: Advanced calculus; a text upon select parts of differential calculus, differential equations, integral calculus, theory of functions; with numerous exercises (Ginn and Company, 1912) (page images at HathiTrust) Wilson, Edwin Bidwell, 1879-1964: Aeronautics, a class text (John Wiley and sons, inc.; [etc., etc.], 1920) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Wilson, Edwin Bidwell, 1879-1964: The problems of a changing population. Report of the Committee on population problems to the National resources committee. May, 1938. (U. S. Govt. print. off., 1938), also by United States. National Resources Committee. Science Committee (page images at HathiTrust) Wilson, Edwin Bidwell, 1879-1964: Reports on wind tunnel experiments in aerodynamics (with five plates) (Smithsonian institution, 1916), also by Charles Lee Brand, Donald W. Douglas, Henry Easter Rossell, Edgar Buckingham, Jerome C. Hunsaker, and Smithsonian Institution. Hodgkins fund (page images at HathiTrust) Wilson, Edwin Bidwell, 1879-1964: Vector analysis: a text-book for the use of students of mathematics & physics: founded upon the lectures of J. W. Gibbs. (Scribner, 1902), also by J. Willard Gibbs (page images at HathiTrust) Wilson, Edwin Bidwell, 1879-1964: Vector analysis; a text-book for the use of students of mathematics and physics (C. Scribner's Sons, 1901), also by J. Willard Gibbs (page images at HathiTrust) Wilson, Edwin Bidwell, 1879-1964: Vector analysis, a text-book for the use of students of mathematics and physics (Yale University Press, 1929), also by J. Willard Gibbs (page images at HathiTrust) Wilson, Edwin Bidwell, 1879-1964: Vector analysis; a text-book for the use of students of mathematics and physics, founded upon the lectures of J. Willard Gibbs ... (C. Scribner's Sons; [etc., etc.], 1907), also by J. Willard Gibbs (page images at HathiTrust) Wilson, Edwin Bidwell, 1879-1964: Vector analysis : a text-book for the use of students of mathematics and physics, founded upon the lectures of J. Willard Gibbs ... (Yale university press, 1913), also by J. Willard Gibbs (page images at HathiTrust) Wilson, Edwin Bidwell, 1879-1964: Vector analysis; a text-book for the use of students of mathematics and physics, founded upon the lectures of J. Willard Gibbs ... (Yale university press, 1931), also by J. Willard Gibbs (page images at HathiTrust) Wilson, Edwin Bidwell, 1879-1964: Vector analysis; a text-book for the use of students of mathematics and physics, founded upon the lectures of J. Willard Gibbs (Yale University Press, 1913), also by J. Willard Gibbs (page images at HathiTrust) Wilson, Edwin Bidwell, 1879-1964: Vector analysis; a text-book for the use of students of mathematics and physics, founded upon the lectures of J. Willard Gibbs (Yale University Press, 1922), also by J. Willard Gibbs (page images at HathiTrust)
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