William Elwood Byerly


William Elwood Byerly was an American mathematician. He was the Perkins Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University. He was noted for his excellent teaching and textbooks. Byerly was the first to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard, and Harvard's chair "William Elwood Byerly Professor in Mathematics" is named after him. Byerly Hall in Radcliffe Yard, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University is also named for him.

Textbooks

Among the textbooks he wrote are:Elements of the Differential Calculus Harmonic Functions Problems in Differential CalculusIntroduction to the Calculus of Variations Elements of the Integral Calculus An Elementary Treatise on Fourier's Series