Charles Wiggins Cobb ( Eng. Charles Wiggins Cobb ; September 17, 1875 , Plymouth (Massachusetts) , USA - March 2, 1949 , Cambridge (Massachusetts) , USA ) [3] - American mathematician and economist . One of the first to use the Cobb-Douglas function in economics.
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| Place of Birth | Plymouth , USA |
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| A place of death | Cambridge , USA |
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| Scientific field | economy |
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| Known as | one of the creators of the Cobb-Douglas function |
Biography
Charles was born on September 17, 1875 in the family of a pastor. Charles's father, pastor William Henry Cobb (born 02/04/1846) married the mother of Emily Walliston Wiggins (born July 16, 1848) on October 30, 1872 . Charles had two more sisters Annie (born 15/15/1873) and Mary (born 11/23/1883) and two brothers Edward (born 08/24/1878) and William (born 7/05/1882 - 09/19/1903). William Cobba graduated from Amherst College in 1867, and was a pastor in Medfield, Massachusetts , in 1876–1878, then pastor in Uxbridge, Massachusetts , in 1878–1887, and from 1887 became librarian at the Cathedral Library in Boston [4] .
At Amherst College, he received a bachelor's degree in 1897 and a master's degree in 1901. He received his doctorate in 1912 at the University of Michigan [5] .
He began his teaching career by teaching at the Albany Academy , then at Fitchburg High School, at the New York Graduate School of Commerce and at the Worcester Academy . He worked at Columbia and New York Universities in 1904-1905, in 1907-1908, and at the University of Michigan in 1910-1911 [5] .
He worked with economist Paul Douglas , lecturing at Amherst College in Massachusetts as a teacher in 1908-1910, assistant professor in 1911-1914, assistant professor in 1914-1922, professor from 1922 until his retirement in 1941 [ 5] .
Charles married Mary Harriet Preble (born 1903) in 1919, they had three children (Charles, Emily and Preble) [6] . In 1917-1918 he was a captain in the communications forces , since 1922 an arbitrator in Rochester, New York [5] .
Contribution to Science
- Cobb-Douglas Function
In 1928, Charles Cobb and Paul Douglas published a study simulating the growth of the American economy from 1899 to 1922. They considered a simplified view of the economy in which output is determined by the amount of labor involved and the amount of capital [7] .
Bibliography
He has written many books and brochures, including a doctoral dissertation in mathematics:
- Cobb CW Plane Analytic Geometry, 1913
- Cobb CW The asymptotic development for a certain integral function of zero order - Norwood, Mass: The Norwood Press, 1913
- Cobb CW, Douglas PH A Theory of Production // American Economic Review, 1928, vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 139-165
- Cobb CW Manufacturing in Ten States: 1921-1931, 1935
- Cobb CW Notes on Massachusetts Manufacturing, 1939
- Cobb CW Notes on United States Manufacturing, 1940
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ 1 2 Faceted Application of Subject Terminology
- ↑ The Michigan Alumnus, May 21 . - 1949 .-- T. 55 . - S. 393 .
- ↑ William Henry Cobb. Elder Henry Cobb Family .
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Amherst College Olio 1925. Amherst College Digital Collections . - 1925. - S. 35 .
- ↑ Charles Wiggins Cobb. Elder Henry Cobb Family .
- ↑ RCS Trahair, From Aristotelian to Reaganomics: a dictionary of eponyms with biographies in the social sciences , p. 133