References for William Osgood
- J L Walsh, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830903246.html
Books:
- K H Parshall and D E Rowe, The emergence of the American mathematical research community, 1876-1900 : J J Sylvester, Felix Klein, and E H Moore (Providence, 1994).
Articles:
- G D Birkhoff, Obituary: William Fogg Osgood, Scientific Monthly 57 (1943), 466-469.
- J L Coolidge, G D Birkhoff and E C Kemble, Obituary : William Fogg Osgood, Science 98 (1943), 399-400.
- B Koopman, Obituary : William Fogg Osgood-In Memoriam, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 50 (1944), 139-142.
- Obituary : William Fogg Osgood, New York Times (23 July, 1943).
- J L Walsh, William Fogg Osgood, A century of mathematics in America II (Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, R.I., 1989), 79-85.
- J L Walsh, William Fogg Osgood, Biographical Memoirs National Academy of Sciences 81 (2002), 246-257.
- William Fogg Osgood, Dictionary of American Biography, Supplement 3, 574-575.
- J D Zund, William Fogg Osgood, American National Biography 16 (Oxford, 1999), 801-802.
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MacTutor History of Mathematics
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