William Fogg Osgood

William Fogg Osgood
Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nuremberg
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William Fogg Osgood (March 10, 1864 – July 22, 1943) was an American mathematician.

Education and career

William Fogg Osgood was born in

From 1899 to 1902, he served as editor of the Annals of Mathematics, and in 1905–1906 was president of the American Mathematical Society, whose Transactions he edited in 1909–1910.

Contributions

The works of Osgood dealt with

Besides his research on analysis, Osgood was also interested in mathematical physics and wrote on the theory of the gyroscope.

Awards and honors

Osgood was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1899.^[4] In 1904, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.^[5] He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1915.^[6]

Personal life

Osgood's cousin, Louise Osgood, was the mother of Bernard Koopman.^[7]

William Fogg Osgood died at his home in Belmont, Massachusetts on July 22, 1943.^[8]

Selected publications

Osgood's books include:

• Introduction to Infinite Series (Harvard University Press 1897; third edition, 1906)
• Lehrbuch der Funktionentheorie (Teubner, Berlin, 1907; second edition, 1912)
• First Course in Differential and Integral Calculus (1907; revised edition, 1909)
• (with W. C. Graustein) Plane and Solid Analytic Geometry (Macmillan, NY, 1921)
• Elementary Calculus (MacMillan, NY, 1921)
• Advanced Calculus (MacMillan, NY, 1925)
• Mechanics (MacMillan, NY, 1937)

See also

• Riemann mapping theorem
• Osgood's lemma
• Osgood–Brown theorem
• Moore–Osgood theorem
• Stieltjes–Osgood theorem

Notes

References

• American Mathematical Society (2011), "8. William Fogg Osgood (1905–1908)", AMS Presidents: A Timeline, Providence, RI: University of California, Berkeley, retrieved October 31, 2011.
• Zbl 0019.24305
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• E. C. Kemble (1943) William Fogg Osgood, Science
  98:399–400 (issue #2549).
• Zbl 0060.01703
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• JSTOR 170181
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• Osgood, William F. (1903), "A Jordan Curve of Positive Area" (PDF),
  MR 1500628
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• Zbl 0273.30003
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• ISBN 978-0-309-03391-6
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• Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Report (Report VII) of the Secretary of the Class of 1886 of Harvard College. The University Press. 1911. pp. 166–167. Retrieved April 17, 2023 – via Internet Archive..
• "William F. Osgood". Hartford Courant. Belmont, Massachusetts (published July 24, 1943). AP. July 23, 1943. p. 4. Retrieved April 17, 2023 – via Newspapers.com..