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William Fogg Osgood (1864-1943) was an American mathematician, born in Boston. In 1886 he graduated from Harvard, where, after studying at the universities of Göttingen (1887-'89) and Erlangen (Ph.D., 1890), he was instructor (1890-'93), assistant professor (1893-1903), and thenceforth professor of mathematics. From 1899 to 1902 he served as editor of the Annals of Mathematics and in 1904-'05 was president of the American Mathematical Society, whose Transactions he edited in 1909-'10. Osgood's publications include:

• Introduction to Infinite Series (1897; third edition, 1906)
• Lehrbuch des Funktionentheorie (1907; second edition, 1912)
• First Course in Differential and Integral Calculus (1907; revised edition, 1909)

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