Edwin Bidwell Wilson was an American mathematician

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 and polymath

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. He was the sole protégé of Yale

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's physicist Josiah Willard Gibbs

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 and was mentor to MIT economist Paul Samuelson

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. He received his AB from Harvard College

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 in 1899 and his PhD from Yale University

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 in 1901, working under Gibbs.

E.B. Wilson compiled the textbook Vector Analysis

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, based on Gibbs' lectures, as Gibbs was at the time busy preparing his book on thermodynamics.
In 1904 Wilson reviewed Bertrand Russell

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's text on foundations of mathematics called The Principles of Mathematics

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. He wrote "The Space-Time Manifold of Relativity" with Gilbert N. Lewis

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 in 1912.

Wilson went on to write two more textbook

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s: Advanced Calculus (1912) and Aeronautics: A Class Text (1920).