Mathematician:Josiah Willard Gibbs

Mathematician
American scientist who made important theoretical contributions to physics, chemistry, and mathematics. One of the students of, under whom he studied analysis in $1868$.

Much of the chemical industry of the U.S. is directly dependent upon the work he did.

Nationality
American

History

 * Born: 11 February 1839 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA
 * 1854: Entered Yale
 * 1858: Graduated from Yale, continued studies at New Haven
 * 1863: Obtained Ph.D. from New Haven, appointed Tutor at Yale
 * 1866: Visited Europe
 * 1866 -- 67: Studied at Paris
 * 1867 -- 69: Studied at Berlin and Heidelberg
 * 1869: Returned to New Haven
 * 1871: Appointed to Professorship at Yale
 * Died: 28 April 1903 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Theorems and Definitions

 * Gibbs Phenomenon
 * Gibbs Sampler


 * Wilbraham-Gibbs Constant (independently of )

Publications

 * 1873: Graphical Methods in the Thermodynamics of Fluids
 * 1873: A Method of Geometrical Representation of the Thermodynamic Properties of Substances by Means of Surfaces
 * 1876: On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances (part 1)
 * 1878: On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances (part 2)
 * 1881:




 * 1901: (with )
 * 1929: (with )