In his autobiography, mathematician Gian-Carlo Rota tells of casually browsing the mathematical stacks of Sterling Library and stumbling on a handwritten mailing list, attached to some of Gibbs's course notes, which listed over two hundred notable scientists of his day, including Poincaré, Hilbert, Boltzmann, and Mach.

Both at the University and within the Academy, Gibbs's principal mentor and champion appears to have been the astronomer Hubert Anson Newton, a leading authority on the subject of meteors.

James Clerk Maxwell | Maxwell's sketch of the lines of constant temperature and pressure, made in preparation for his construction of a Maxwell's thermodynamic surface | solid model based on Gibbs's definition of a thermodynamic surface for water

Gibbs's first published work, which appeared in 1873 when he was already 34 years old, was on the geometric representation of thermodynamic quantities.

He did supervise the doctoral thesis on mathematical economics written by Irving Fisher in 1891, and after Gibbs's death Fisher financed the publication of his Collected Works.

Though Gibbs's research on physical optics is less well known today than his other work, it made a significant contribution to classical electromagnetism by applying Maxwell's equations to the theory of optical processes such as birefringence, dispersion, and optical activity.

When Gibbs submitted his long paper on the equilibrium of heterogeneous substances to the Academy, both Elias Loomis and Hubert Anson Newton protested that they did not understand Gibbs's work at all, but they helped to raise the money needed to pay for the typesetting of the many equations and mathematical symbols in the paper.

Gibbs's most immediate and obvious influence was on physical chemistry and statistical mechanics, two disciplines which he greatly helped to found.

When Dutch physicist J. D. van der Waals received the 1910 Nobel Prize " for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids " he acknowledged the great influence of Gibbs's work on that subject.

Gibbs's work on ensembles and on the ergodic hypothesis, as presented in his 1902 textbook on statistical mechanics, has had a considerable impact in both theoretical physics and in pure mathematics.

Initially unaware of Gibbs's contributions in that field, Albert Einstein wrote three papers on statistical mechanics, published between 1902 and 1904.

The publication in 1901 of E. B. Wilson's textbook Vector Analysis, based on Gibbs's lectures at Yale, did much to propagate the use of vectorial methods and notation in both mathematics and theoretical physics, definitively displacing the quaternions that had until then been dominant in the scientific literature.

) Yale's J. W. Gibbs Laboratory and its J. Willard Gibbs Assistant Professorship in Mathematics are also named in his honor, and the university has hosted two symposia dedicated to Gibbs's life and work, one in 1989 and another on the centenary of his death, in 2003.

On March 2, 2010, she appeared on an episode of NCIS as lead character Leroy Jethro Gibbs's former mother-in-law, who is embroiled in a murder investigation.

Other manuscripts include: Francesco di Giorgio's mid-16th century Treatise of Architecture ; Nicholas Stone's two account books covering 1631 – 42, and his son also Nicholas Stone Sketch Book ( France & Italy ) 1648 and Henry Stone's sketch book 1638 ; Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne's The Second Epistle ; James Gibbs's A few short cursory remarks on buildings in Rome ; Joshua Reynolds's two sketches books from Rome ; Torquato Tasso's early manuscript of Gerusalemme Liberata.

( Gibbs's character, Florence, had a crush on Williams and challenged him on everything because she thought he was an impostor ); 227 ( her character, Mary, pretending to be royalty, met Williams at a banquet ); and The Hughleys ( Gibbs and Williams portrayed Darryl's parents ).

From 2006 to 2012, he appeared as a recurring cast member on NCIS as Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs's mentor and former superior Mike Franks.

In 1885, William Stanley, Jr. built the first practical transformer based on Gaulard and Gibbs's idea, the precursor of the modern transformer.

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The first half of Gibbs's Elements of Vector Analysis, published in 1881, presents what is essentially the modern system of vector analysis.

The development of vector calculus was Gibbs's other great contribution to mathematics.

The first half of the 20th century saw the publication of two influential textbooks that soon came to be regarded as founding documents of chemical thermodynamics, both of which used and extended Gibbs's work in that field: these were Thermodynamics and the Free Energy of Chemical Processes ( 1923 ), by Gilbert N. Lewis and Merle Randall, and Modern Thermodynamics by the Methods of Willard Gibbs ( 1933 ), by Edward A. Guggenheim.

One of the most serious disappointments of Gibbs's career was his failure to win the commission for the Mansion House, London, there were two competitions for the building, both of which he entered the first in 1728 and a second one in 1735, in the end George Dance the elder won the commission.

" Gibbs's own framework for statistical mechanics was so carefully constructed that it could be carried over almost intact after the discovery that the microscopic laws of nature obey the rules of quantum mechanics, rather than the classical mechanics known to Gibbs and to his contemporaries.

Powell attended Gibbs's pre-prep day-school at the Square end of Sloane Street for a brief time.

This equation demonstrates the conservation of density in phase space ( which was Gibbs's name for the theorem ).

Gibbs's return to the U. S. helped his national team career, as he received frequent callups for 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.

Henry Purcell's fantasias are the last Baroque representatives of the breed, although Walter Willson Cobbett, in the opening decades of the 20th century, attempted to resurrect something of this style via a competition, to which works like William Hurlstone's, Cecil Armstrong Gibbs's, John Ireland's, Herbert Howells's, and Frank Bridge's Phantasie trios and quartets owe their existence ( Howes and Bashford, 2001 ), as does Benjamin Britten's Phantasy in F minor for string quintet written in 1932, the same year in which he also composed a Phantasy Quartet for oboe and strings ( Brett et al.

On the 11 December 1721 Edward Lany, one of the Syndics of University of Cambridge thanked Edward Harley Earl of Oxford for sending " Mr Gibbs's design for our building.

Harold " Hal " Williams ( born December 14, 1938 ) is an American actor, best known for his recurring role as the black cop Officer Smith (" Smitty ") on Sanford and Son, and as the patriarch Lester Jenkins, the husband of Marla Gibbs's character, on the NBC sitcom 227.

According to Lynde Wheeler, who had been Gibbs's student at Yale, in his later years Gibbs

After reading Gibbs's textbook ( which was translated into German by Ernst Zermelo in 1905 ), Einstein declared that Gibbs's treatment was superior to his own and explained that he would not have written those papers if he had known Gibbs's work.

It is probable the tombstone was made by either John Gibbs of Oxford ( father of utler's second wife ) or one of Gibbs's employees.

The outer walls, the tower and Gibbs's steeple, survived the bombing, but the interior was gutted by fire.

Gibbs's principal protégé was Edwin Bidwell Wilson, who nonetheless explained that " except in the classroom I saw very little of Gibbs.

Gibbs's protegé Edwin Bidwell Wilson became, in turn, a mentor to leading American economist and Nobel Laureate Paul Samuelson.

Gibbs's derivation of the phenomenological laws of thermodynamics from the statistical properties of systems with many particles was presented in his highly-influential textbook Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics, published in 1902, a year before his death.

In an obituary published in the American Journal of Science, Gibbs's former student Henry A. Bumstead referred to Gibbs's personal character:

) One may conclude that Gibbs's work was better known among the scientific elite of his day than the published material suggests.

Title page of Gibbs's Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics, one of the founding documents of that discipline, published in 1902.

In that work, published in 1892 as Mathematical Investigations in the Theory of Value and Prices, Fisher drew a direct analogy between Gibbsian equilibrium in physical and chemical systems, and the general equilibrium of markets, and he used Gibbs's vectorial notation.