David Widder, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

David Widder

American mathematician

Date of Birth: 25-Mar-1898

Place of Birth: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Death: 08-Jul-1990

Profession: mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

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.
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).