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Thomas William Edmondson, Ph. D. (1869–November 5, 1938) was an American mathematician, born at Skipton-in-Craven, Yorkshire, England. He graduated from the University of London, studied at Cambridge, and also at Clark University, Worcester, Mass. He was an associate professor at NYU from 1896 to 1905, and a professor of mathematics afterwards. He wrote mathematical textbooks; his publications include:

• Worked Examples in Coördinate Geometry (1891)
• Mensuration and Spherical Geometry (1893), with W. Briggs
• Deductions in Euclid (1901)

He married the former Minnie Ramsden in 1897 in Perth, Ontario.