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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 (Prentice-Hall, 1947). 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).

References

1. Stenger, Allen (September 16, 2015). "Review of Advanced Calculus by David V. Widder". MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.
2. Stenger, Allen (July 19, 2011). "Review of The Laplace Transform by David Vernon Widder". MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.
3. Widder, D.V. (2015). Laplace Transform (PMS-6). Princeton Mathematical Series, No. 6. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1-4008-7645-7. (pbk reprint of 1941 1st edition)
4. Stenger, Allen (January 29, 2015). "Review of An Introduction to Transform Theory by David V. Widder". MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.

• A Century of Mathematics in America by Peter L. Duren and Richard Askey, American Mathematical Society, 1988, ISBN 0-8218-0130-9.
• A History of the Second Fifty Years, American Mathematical Society 1939-1988 By Everett Pitcher, American Mathematical Society, 1988, ISBN 0-8218-0125-2.

External links

• David Widder at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

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