William Warntz

William Warntz (1922–1988) was an American mathematical geographer based at the Harvard Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis. He was a "pioneer in mathematical approaches to spatial analysis".^[1]

Life

Warntz studied economics at the University of Pennsylvania, gaining a PhD there. His papers are held at Cornell University Library.^[2]

Works

• Toward a geography of price; a study in geo-econometrics, 1959
• Geography now and then: some notes on the history of academic geography in the United States, 1964
• Geographers and what they do, 1964
• Macrogeography and income fronts, 1965
• Breakthroughs in geography, 1971