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Edwin Bidwell Wilson, 1879-1964
Edwin Bildwell Wilson was a famous mathematician, physicist and statistician, with only an amateur's interest in economics.
Originating from Connectiuct, E.B. Wilson obtained his B.A. at Harvard in 1899, and promptly enrolled in graduate study under J. Willard Gibbs at Yale, receiving his Ph.D in 1901. Wilson compiled his lecture notes from Gibbs's class to compose his highly popular Vector Analysis, which was instrumental in the popularization of vector analysis and calculus. Although appointed instructor in mathematics at Yale already by 1900, Wilson took a leave for a year to study at the ENS in Paris. E.B.
Wilson moved to .M.I.T. in 1907, where he developed his research in mathematical physics and aeronautics. Wilson became professor of mathematics by 1911 and professor mathematical physics by 1917 at M.I.T.
His interest shifting towards statistics, E.B. Wilson moved to Harvard in 1922, taking up a position as professor of vital statistics and the Harvard School of Public Health. where his interest shifted towards statistics. Schumpeter and Leontief tapped him to teach "modern" mathematics and statistics at the economics department. E.B. Wilson has been credited amply by Paul Samuelson as one of his most important influences at Harvard. .
E.B. Wilson's interest in economics, mostly in Pareto and the Lausanne School and his recurrent methodological forays in favor of mathematical economics, led him to be elected to the first council of the Econometric Society.
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