Charles Wiggins Cobb (* 17. September 1875 in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts; † 2. März 1949 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts) war ein US-amerikanischer Mathematiker und Wirtschaftswissenschaftler.
Charles Wiggins Cobb lehrte am Amherst College in Massachusetts. Zusammen mit Paul Howard Douglas wies er die nach ihnen benannte Cobb-Douglas-Funktion empirisch nach.
Schriften
- Plane Analytic Geometry (1913)
- The Asymptotic Development for a Certain Function of Zero Order (1913)
- Manufacturing in Ten States: 1921–1931 (1935)
- Notes on Massachusetts Manufacturing (1939)
- Notes on United States Manufacturing (1940)
Literatur
- Albert Nelson Marquis: Who's who in New England : a biographical dictionary of leading living men and women of the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. : Volume 3 A.N. Marquis & Co., Chicago, 1938, S. 295.
- Who's who in Massachusetts. Larkin, Roosevelt & Larkin, Boston, 1940, S. 174.
- Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching: Annual Report - Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. : Volume 44. The Foundation, New York, 1949, S. 37.
- R. C. S. Trahair: From Aristotelian to Reaganomics: a dictionary of eponyms with biographies.
Einzelnachweise
- ↑ snaccooperative.org: Cobb, Charles W. (Charles Wiggins), 1875-1949, abgerufen am 22. April 2021.
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