William Fogh Osgood ( Eng. William Fogg Osgood ; 1864-1943) - American mathematician . Major works in the complex analysis and theory of gyroscope . The best known example is a flat, self-intersecting curve and a positive area, sometimes called the Osgood curve . [3]
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Biography
In 1886 he graduated from Harvard . After studying at the universities of Göttingen (1887–1889) and Erlangen . Then he returned to Harvard, where he worked as an instructor (1890-1893), assistant professor (1893-1903), and after a professor of mathematics.
Osgood's cousin, Louise Osgood, mother of Bernard Koopman .
Recognition
- He was awarded the title of honorary professor in 1933.
- Osgood was the head of the mathematics department at Harvard University, from 1918 to 1922.
- He worked as an editor of Annals of Mathematics 1899-1902 and also an editor of the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society in 1909-1910.
- In the years 1904-1905 was president of the American Mathematical Society .
- In 1904, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States [4] .
Books
- Introduction to Infinite Series (Harvard University Press 1897; third edition, 1906)
- (with WC Graustein) Plane and solid analytic geometry (Macmillan, NY, 1921)
- Lehrbuch der Funktionentheorie (Teubner, Berlin, 1907; second edition, 1912)
- First Course in Differential and Integral Calculus (1907; revised edition, 1909)
- Elementary calculus (MacMillan, NY, 1921)
- Mechanics (MacMillan, NY, 1937)
See also
- Riemann mapping theorem
- Lemma osgood
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Archive for the History of Mathematics McTutor
- ↑ SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ WF Osgood. A Jordan curve of positive area (English) // Trans. Am. Math Soc .. - 1903. - Vol. 4 - P. 107–112 .
- ↑ William F. Osgood (English)
Links
- American Mathematical Society (2011), "39. Charles Bradford Morrey, Jr. (1907–1984)" , AMS Presidents: A Timeline , Providence, RI: University of California, Berkeley , retrieved October 31, 2011 .
- Archibald, Raymond Clare (1938), A Semicentennial History of the American Mathematical Society, 1888-1938. Volume I , Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society , p. 262, ISBN 0-8218-0118-X, JFM 64.0004.01 , MR 0959537 , Zbl 0019.24305 .
- JL Coolidge, GD Birkhoff & EC Kemble (1943) William Fogg Osgood , Science 98: 399–400 (issue # 2549).
- Koopman, Bernard Osgood (March 1944), "William Fogg Osgood — In memoriam" , Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society , 50 (3): 139–142, doi : 10.1090 / s0002-9904-1944-08080-4 , MR 0010143 , Zbl 0060.01703 .
- Morse, Philip M. (1982), “In Memoriam: Bernard Osgood Koopman, 1900–1981”, Operations Research , 30 (3): viii + 417–427, doi : 10.1287 / opre.30.3.417 , JSTOR 170181 .
- Walsh, JL (1973), "History of the Riemann mapping theorem", The American Mathematical Monthly , 80 : 270–276, ISSN 0002-9890 , JSTOR 2318448 , MR 0323996 , Zbl 0273.30003 .
- Walsh, Joseph L. (2002), "William Fogg Osgood" , Biological Memoirs , Volume 81, Washington, DC: National Academy Press, pp. 246–257 .
External links
- O'Connor, John J .; Robertson, Edmund F. (August 2005), "William Fogg Osgood" , MacTutor History of Mathematics archive , University of St Andrews