Biography:Edwin Plimpton Adams
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Short description: American mathematician
Edwin Plimpton Adams | |
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| Born | Prague, Bohemia-Moravia |
| Died | December 31, 1956 (aged 78) Princeton, New Jersey, USA |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
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| Fields | Mathematics Physics |
| Institutions | Princeton University |
Edwin Plimpton Adams (Prague, 23 January 1878[1] – Princeton, New Jersey, 31 December 1956) was an American physicist known for translating Einstein's lectures. Clinton Joseph Davisson attended his lectures. Adams was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1915.[2]
Works
- Greenhill, Alfred George, ed (1922). Smithsonian Mathematical Formulae and Tables of Elliptic Functions. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 74 (1 ed.). Washington D.C., USA: Smithsonian Institution. https://books.google.com/books?id=YKSQngEACAAJ. Retrieved 2016-04-17. (NB. A significant number of entries of this book were later included in Iosif Moiseevich Ryzhik's integral table Tables of integrals, sums, series and products (Таблицы интегралов, сумм, рядов и произведений) in 1945.)
Further reading
- "Nekrolog". Science 125 (3243): 339. 1957. doi:10.1126/science.125.3243.339. PMID 17794440.
References
- ↑ "Adams, Edwin Plimpton". Who Was Who Among North American Authors, 1921-1939. Detroit: Gale Research Co.. 1976. p. 7. ISBN 0810310414. https://archive.org/details/whowaswhoamongno0001unse/page/7.
- ↑ "APS Member History". https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Edwin+P.+Adams&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced.
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Edwin Plimpton Adams", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Adams_Edwin.html.
External links
- Works by Edwin Plimpton Adams at Project Gutenberg
- Error in Template:Internet Archive author: Edwin Plimpton Adams doesn't exist.
- Edwin Plimpton Adams Papers, 1900–1945: Finding Aid
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