William Fogg Osgood

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.

William Fogg Osgood (1864-1943) was an American mathematician, born in Boston. In 1886 he graduated from Harvard, where, after studying at the universities of Göttingen (1887-'89) and Erlangen (Ph.D., 1890), he was instructor (1890-'93), assistant professor (1893-1903), and thenceforth professor of mathematics. second edition, 1912) First Course in Differential and Integral Calculus (1907; revised edition, 1909)

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