biography
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Osgood, William Fogg
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1864–1943)
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| biography:
| Mathematician, born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. A noted teacher at Harvard (1890–1933), he contributed to development of continuous functions, differential equations, Riemann's theorem, calculus of variations, and space-filling curves. His Lehrbuch der Fuktionetheorie (1907) is still a classic. He loved travel, tennis, golf, and cigars. |
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