William Elwood Byerly
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| Born | 1849  |
| Died | 1935 (aged 85–86) |
William Elwood Byerly (13 December 1849 – 20 December 1935) was an American mathematician at Harvard University where he was the "Perkins Professor of Mathematics". He was noted for his excellent teaching and textbooks.[1] Byerly was the first to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard, and Harvard's chair "William Elwood Byerly Professor in Mathematics" is named after him. in , Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University is also named for him.
Textbooks[]
Among the textbooks he wrote are:
- Elements of the Differential Calculus (1879)
- Harmonic Functions (1906)
- Problems in Differential Calculus
- Introduction to the Calculus of Variations (1917)
- Elements of the Integral Calculus (1881)
- An Elementary Treatise on Fourier's Series (1893)
- An Introduction to the Use of Generalized Coordinates in Mechanics and Physics (1916)
References[]
- J. L. Coolidge, "William Elwood Byerly—In memoriam", Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. Volume 42, Number 5 (1936), pp. 295–298.
- Edwin H. Hall, "William Elwood Byerly (1849-1935)", Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 71, No. 10 (Mar., 1937), pp. 492–494.
Notes[]
- ^ National Academy of Sciences (2002). Biographical Memoirs. National Academies Press. p. 255. ISBN 978-0-309-08476-5.
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