Mathematician:Henry Wilbraham

Mathematician

English mathematician best known for discovering and explaining the Gibbs phenomenon nearly fifty years before Josiah Willard Gibbs did.

Nationality

English

History

• Born: 25 July 1825
• Died: 13 February 1883

Theorems and Definitions

• Wilbraham-Gibbs Constant (independently of Josiah Willard Gibbs)

Definitions of concepts named for Henry Wilbraham can be found here.

Publications

• 1848: On a certain periodic function (The Cambridge and Dublin Mathematical Journal Vol. 3: pp. 198 – 201)

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Henry Wilbraham": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive