Widder, D. V. 1898-1990

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Name (Latin)
Widder, D. V. 1898-1990
Other forms of name
Widder, D. V. (David Vernon), 1898-
nna Widder, David Vernon, 1898-
Date of birth
1898-03-25
Date of death
1990-07-08
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 22359137
Wikidata: Q951285
Library of congress: n 84801962
Sources of Information
  • Wikipedia, Sept. 16, 2010(David Vernon Widder; b. Mar. 25, 1898; d. July 8, 1990; American mathematician)
  • LCCN 61-6823: His Advanced calculus, 1961(hdg.: Widder, David Vernon, 1898- )
  • LC data base, 5-29-84(hdg.: Widder, David Vernon, 1898- ; usage: D.V. Widder)
  • The convolution transform, 2005:CIP t.p. (David Vernon Widder)

Wikipedia description:

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 (Prentice-Hall, 1947). 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).

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