Henry Wilbraham

Henry Wilbraham (July 25, 1825 – February 13, 1883) was an English mathematician. He is known for discovering and explaining the Gibbs phenomenon nearly fifty years before J. Willard Gibbs did. Gibbs and Maxime Bôcher, as well as nearly everyone else, were unaware of Wilbraham's work on the Gibbs phenomenon.

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Birth dateJuly 25, 1825
Date of deathFebruary 13, 1883

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