William Woolsey Johnson
American mathematician, who was one of the founders of the American Mathematical Society
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William Woolsey Johnson's Degrees
- PhD Mathematics University of Göttingen
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Woolsey Johnson was an American mathematician, who was one of the founders of the American Mathematical Society. Life and work Johnson, son of a farmer of Tioga County, New York, studied at Yale University where he received his BA in 1862. After two years serving in the Nautical Almanac Office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he began his academic career as assistant professor in the Naval Academy in Newport, Rhode Island, but soon transferred to Annapolis, Maryland, from 1864 to 1869. In 1870 he was appointed professor of mathematics at Kenyon College and since 1872 at St. John's College . In 1881 he returned to the Naval Academy as full professor where he remained until his retirement in 1921.
William Woolsey Johnson's Published Works
Published Works
- On the Distribution of Primes (25)
- Theory of Parallels (1876) (8)
- Solution of Problem 226 (5)
- Solution of the General Case of Problem. 87, Math. Visitor, No. 2 (1879) (5)
- Classification of Plane Curves with Reference to Inversion (1877) (4)
- Singular Solutions of Differential Equations of the First Order (1887) (3)
- The Peaucellier Machine and Other Linkages (1875) (3)
- Mr. James Glaisher's Factor Tables and the Distribution of Primes. (1884) (2)
- On the Expression 0 0 (1876) (2)
- Mr. Glaisher's Enumeration of Primes for the First Nine Millions (1882) (1)
- Gravitation and absolute units of force (1894) (1)
- On Gauss's Method of Substitution (1)
- The Kinematical Method of Tangents (1)
- On Monge's Solution of the Non-Integrable Equation Between Three Variables (1888) (0)
- Kinetic stability of central orbits (1895) (0)
- The mechanical axioms or laws of motion (1892) (0)
- Note by Prof. W. W. Johnson (1876) (0)
- Note on the Correction of an Error in the Theory of Polyconic Projections (0)
- Note on Evaluation of Indeterminate Forms (1877) (0)
- Answer to Prof. Hall's Query (1875) (0)
- PROVING A GEOMETRICAL FALLACY BY TRIGONOMETRY1 (1919) (0)
- Symmetrical Functions of the Sines of the Angles Included in the Expression a 0 + 2kπ n . (1879) (0)
- On a solar halo (1872) (0)
- New Notation for Anharmonic Ratios (1882) (0)
- On the Integrals in Series of Binomial Differential Equations (1888) (0)
- Solutions of Problems in Number Four (1875) (0)
- Note on Anharmonic Ratios (1883) (0)
- A treatise on the differential calculus founded on the method of rates (0)
- The Imaginary Period in Elliptic Functions (0)
- Recent Results in the Study of Linkages [Continued] (1876) (0)
- He Hath Made the Earth. Harvest Anthem (1891) (0)
- Solutions of Problems in No 3 (1875) (0)
- Systems of Formulœ for the sn, cn and dn of u+v+w (1881) (0)
- Bipolar Equations-Cartesian Ovals (1875) (0)
- Recent Results in the Study of Linkages (1876) (0)
- Solution of Problem on Page 40, Number 2 (1875) (0)
- Note on the Polynomial Theorem (1878) (0)
- Paradox for Students in Analytical Geometry (1875) (0)
- Trees and tree seeds (0)
- Note on the Catenary (1879) (0)
- Correction of an Error in Bartlett's Mechanics (1883) (0)
- Enumeration of Primes (0)
- On the Differential Equation (1887) (0)
- An Elementary Treatise on the Differential Calculus: Founded on the Method of Rates (1909) (0)
- Note on Prof. Nicholson's Singular Value of II (1882) (0)
- Solution of Prob's in No.2 [Continued] (1880) (0)
- Note on the Solution of Prob. 363 (0)
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