ABSTRACT
American economists have a good and special reason to honor J. Willard Gibbs. The late Professor Irving Fisher—the author of the earliest monograph on Mathematical Economics published on this side of the Atlantic and one of the truly great economists this country has produced—was a pupil of Gibbs. He was in 1929 the first to represent social sciences in this series of memorial lectures. The second was Professor Edwin B. Wilson, mathematician and economist, also one of Gibbs’s immediate disciples, and author of the early treatise on Vector Analysis based on his teacher’s original lectures on that subject.
