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Edwin Bidwell Wilson (April 25, 1879 – December 28, 1964) was a mathematician and polymath. He was the sole protegé of Yale's physicist Josiah Willard Gibbs and was mentor to Harvard economist Paul Samuelson. He received his AB from Harvard College in 1899 and his PhD from Yale University in 1901, working under Gibbs.
E.B. Wilson compiled the textbook Vector Analysis, based on Gibbs' lectures, as Gibbs was at the time busy preparing his book on thermodynamics.
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