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William Fogg Osgood born March 10, 1864 in Boston, MA. He graduated here at Harvard and also did here one year of graduate studies. Frank Cole who had attended Klein's lectures at Harvard in 1885 would convince him to tudy with Felix Klein in Goettingen. He worked in the calculus of variations, abelian integrals and differential equations. From 1890 on, he taught at Harvard until his retirement. He would later teach 2 years in Peking and live in Belmont, MA. 267-1 = 761838257287 *193707721

Other Mathematicians born in this week:

• Ernst Leonard Lindeloef, born 4. June 1946 in Helsinki, Finland. Work on the existence of differential equations and analytic function theory.
  
• Delfino Codazzi, born March 7 1824 in Lodi, Itali. Work on differential geometry.
  
• Naum Il'isch Akhiezer, born 6. March 1901 in Cherikov, constructive function theory and approximation theory.
• Laurent Schwartz, born 5. March 1915 in Paris, theory of distributions, spectral theory and potential theory who was handed here at Harvard the Fields medal in 1950
• Sergi Natanovich Bernstein, 5. March, Bernstein solved Hilberts Ninteenth roblem in his dissertation. He is known for Bernstein polynomials.
• Jules Antoine Lissajous, 4. March 1822 in Versailles, Lacaze Prize in 1873 for his work on the optical observations of vibrations.
• Boris Grigorievich Galerkin, 4. March 1871 in Polotsk, Belarus, Method of aproximate integration of partial differential equations. His name is kept allive in the notion"Galerkin Method".