Edwin Plimpton Adams

Edwin Plimpton Adams
Born	January 23, 1878 Prague, Bohemia-Moravia
Died	December 31, 1956 (aged 78) Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Nationality	American
Fields	Mathematics Physics
Institutions	Princeton University
Alma mater	Harvard University

Edwin Plimpton Adams (Prague, 23 January 1878^[1] – Princeton, New Jersey, 31 December 1956) was an American physicist. Clinton Joseph Davisson attended his lectures.

Works

• Adams, Edwin Plimpton; Hippisley, Richard Lionel (1922). Greenhill, Alfred George, ed. Smithsonian Mathematical Formulae and Tables of Elliptic Functions. Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 74 (1 ed.). Washington D.C., USA: Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2016-04-17. (NB. A significant number of entries of this book were later included in Iosif Moiseevich Ryzhik's integral table Tables of integrals, sums, series and products (Таблицы интегралов, сумм, рядов и произведений) in 1945.)

Further reading

• Shenstone, A. G. (1957). "Nekrolog". Science. 125: 339.

References

1. "Adams, Edwin Plimpton". Who Was Who Among North American Authors, 1921-1939. Detroit: Gale Research Co. 1976. p. 7. ISBN 0810310414.

• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Edwin Plimpton Adams", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.

External links

• Works by Edwin Plimpton Adams at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Edwin Plimpton Adams at Internet Archive
  • Mathematical formulae prepared by Edwin P. Adams
• Edwin Plimpton Adams Papers, 1900–1945: Finding Aid