WILLIAM FOGG OSGOOD

'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. From 1899 to 1902 he served as editor of the ''Annals of Mathematics'' and in 1904-'05 was president of the American Mathematical Society, whose ''Transactions'' he edited in 1909-'10. Osgood's publications include:

★ ''Introduction to Infinite Series'' (1897; third edition, 1906)

★ ''Lehrbuch des Funktionentheorie'' (1907; second edition, 1912)

★ ''First Course in Differential and Integral Calculus'' (1907; revised edition, 1909)