Mathematician:David Vernon Widder

American mathematician mainly working in analyis.

He was highly regarded for his teaching abilities.

The author of the textbook.

Nationality
American

History

 * Born: March 25, 1898 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
 * 1916: Graduated top of his high school class, entered Harvard University
 * 1916-17: Became a student of Maxime Bôcher
 * 1917: Started work as a computer at Aberdeen Proving Grounds
 * 1918: Returned to Harvard
 * 1920: Graduated magna cum laude, took up a Sheldon traveling fellowship, traveled to England, France and Italy
 * 1921: Returned to Harvard
 * 1923: Earned Master's Degree
 * 1924: Earned Doctorate, under supervision of George David Birkhoff
 * 1924: Started teaching as an associate at Bryn Mawr
 * 1926: Won a National Research Council Fellowship to study at the Rice Institute in Houston and at the University of Chicago
 * 1927: Back at Bryn Mawr
 * 1929: Chairman of department
 * 1931: Returned to Cambridge as assistant professor
 * 1937: Promoted to professorship
 * 1939: Married Vera Ames
 * 1942-48: Chairman of mathematics department
 * 1964-68: Director of the Program for High School Teachers of Science and Mathematics
 * Died: July 8, 1990, Arlington, Massachusetts

Books, Publications, etc.

 * 1941: The Laplace Transform
 * 1947:, 2nd Edition 1961.
 * 1955: The Convolution Transform (with I. I. Hirschman)
 * 1975: The Heat Equation
 * 1979: The Airy Transform