David Widder | |
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Born |
Harrisburg |
25 March 1898
Died | 8 July 1990 | (aged 92)
Nationality | American |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Harvard University |
Alma mater | Harvard University |
Doctoral advisor | George D. Birkhoff |
Doctoral students |
R. Creighton Buck Ralph P. Boas, Jr. Solomon W. Golomb Donald J. Newman Roger Pinkham Harry Pitt Harry Pollard |
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.
He was a co-founder of the Duke Mathematical Journal and the author of the textbook Advanced Calculus. He wrote also The Laplace transform (in which he gave a first solution to Landau's problem on the Dirichlet eta function), An introduction to transform theory, and The convolution transform (co-author with I. I. Hirschman).