# Mathematician:Josiah Willard Gibbs

## Mathematician

American scientist who made important theoretical contributions to physics, chemistry, and mathematics.

One of the students of Karl Weierstrass, under whom he studied analysis in $1868$.

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

American

## History

• Born: 11 February 1839 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA
• Died: 28 April 1903 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA

## Theorems and Definitions

Results named for Josiah Willard Gibbs can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Josiah Willard Gibbs can be found here.

## 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)
• 1899: Fourier Series (Nature Vol. 59: p. 200)
• 1899: Fourier Series (Nature Vol. 59: p. 606)