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PhD Mathematics Columbia University

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According to Wikipedia, Robert Simpson Woodward was an American civil engineer, physicist and mathematician. Biography He was born at Rochester, Michigan, on July 21, 1849, to Lysander Woodward and Peninah A. Simpson. He graduated with a degree in civil engineering at the University of Michigan in 1872. He was appointed assistant engineer on the United States Lake Survey. In 1882 he became assistant astronomer for the United States Transit of Venus Commission. In 1884 he became astronomer to the United States Geological Survey, serving until 1890, when he was hired by Thomas Corwin Mendenhall as assistant in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. In 1893 he was called to Columbia as professor of mechanics and subsequently became professor of mathematical physics as well. He was dean of the faculty of pure science at Columbia from 1895 to 1905, when he became president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, whose reputation and usefulness as a means of furthering scientific research was widely extended under his direction. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1896. In 1898-1900 he was president of the American Mathematical Society, and in 1900 he became President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1902, he was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society. In 1915 he was appointed to the Naval Consulting Board.

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OBSERVATION AND EXPERIMENT (1901) (76)
MEASUREMENT AND CALCULATION. (1902) (23)
THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE. (1901) (11)
On the Form and Position of the Sea-level as Dependent on Superficial Masses Symmetrically Disposed with Respect to a Radius of the Earth's Surface (1886) (9)
Solutions of Problems (1881) (8)
EDUCATION AND THE WORLD'S WORK OF TO-DAY. (1903) (7)
THE CENTURY'S PROGRESS IN APPLIED MATHEMATICS. (1900) (6)
THE NEEDS OF RESEARCH. (1914) (5)
Probability and theory of errors (4)
ALFRED GOLDSBOROUGH MAYOR. (1922) (4)
THE CENTURY'S PROGRESS IN APPLIED MATHEMATICS. (4)
Byerly's Fourier's Series and Spherical, Cylindrical, and Ellipsoidal Harmonics (4)
AN HISTORICAL SURVEY OF THE SCIENCE OF MECHANICS. (1895) (3)
George William Hill (1914) (3)
The effects of secular cooling and meteoric dust on the length of the terrestrial day (1901) (2)
THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE. (1903) (2)
A Treatise on Hydrostatics (1895) (2)
NOTE ON THE ORBITS OF FREELY FALLING BODIES. (1915) (2)
Mathematical theories of the Earth (1889) (2)
Formulas and tables to facilitate the construction and use of maps (2)
THE POINT OF VIEW IN TEACHING ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS. (1908) (2)
THE POLICY OF THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTION. (1907) (1)
Progress of the Association (1916) (1)
REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTION. (1906) (1)
THE UNITY OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE. (1904) (1)
DISCUSSION OF A NATIONAL OBSERVATORY. (1899) (1)
THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTION AND THE PUBLIC. (1917) (1)
The gravitational constant and the mean density of the earth (1)
On the Free Cooling of a Homogeneous Sphere, of Initial Uniform Temperature, in a Medium Which Maintains a Constant Surface Temperature (1887) (1)
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON CONVOCATION WEEK. (1901) (1)
Art. 8: Probabilites of Future Events (0)
The Carnegie Institution of Washington and its Work (1910) (0)
The Mechanics of the Atmosphere (1893) (0)
Art. 12: Laws of Resultant Error (0)
Art. 6: Bernoulli's Theorem (0)
Results of some experiments made to determine the variations in length of certain bars at the temperature of melting ice (1883) (0)
Report on astronomical work of 1889 and 1890 (0)
Preliminary account of the iced bar base apparatus of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (1893) (0)
Mechanical interpretation of the Varations of latitudes (1895) (0)
Art. 11: Typical Errors of a System (0)
The Carnegie Institution of Washington and Scientific Research (1917) (0)
Discussion of Terrestrial Magnetism in North America by Charles A. Schott (0)
Book Review: The Mechanics of the Earth's Atmosphere (1893) (0)
Art. 4: Direct Probabilities (0)
THE ORBITS OF FREELY FALLING BODIES. (1913) (0)
Notice of his appointment as associate editor (1914) (0)
Art. 9: Theory of Errors (0)
On the Diffusion of Heat in a Homogeneous Rectangular Mass, with Special Reference to Bars Used as Standards of Length (1888) (0)
REPORT OF THE TREASURER FOR 1916. (0)
Is the Ocean Surface Depressed? (1886) (0)
Recent Experience on the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey the Use of Long Steel Tapes For Measuring Base Lines (1893) (0)
On the Conditioned Cooling and the Cubical Contraction of a Homogeneous Sphere (1887) (0)
ACADEMIC IDEALS. (0)
Art. 13: Errors of Interpolated Values (0)
Art. 2: Permutations (0)
On the Errors Incident to Values Interpolated by Means of First Differences from Tables of Logarithms, Natural Trigonometric Functions, Etc (1886) (0)
Erratum [Mechanical interpretation of the Varations of latitudes] (1895) (0)
Discussion of "Terrestrial Magnetism in North America" (1893) (0)
REPORT OF THE TREASURER FOR 1922. (0)
Art. 10: Laws of Error (0)
Solutions of Problems in Number Five (1875) (0)
On the Actual and Probable Errors of Interpolated Values Derived from Numerical Tables by Means of First Differences [Continued] (1882) (0)
Art. 14: Statistical Test of Theory (0)
Some Extensions in the Mathematics of Hydromechanics. (0)
Art. 5: Probability of Concurrent Events (0)
SCIENTIFIC SURVEYS OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. (0)
Note on the Solution of Prob. 374 (1882) (0)
Art. 3: Combinations (0)

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