Biography:Wladimir Seidel

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Wladimir Seidel
Born(1907-12-21)December 21, 1907
DiedJanuary 12, 1981(1981-01-12) (aged 73)
Detroit, Michigan
Alma materLudwig-Maximilians-Universität
Known forSeidel class
Scientific career
ThesisÜber die Ränderzuordnung bei konformen Abbildungen (1930)
Doctoral advisorConstantin Carathéodory

Wladimir P. Seidel (December 21, 1907 – January 12, 1981) was a Russian-born German-American mathematician, and Doctor of Mathematics. He held a fellowship as a Benjamin Peirce Professor in Harvard University. During World War II, he was with the Montreal Theory group for the National Research Council of Canada.

Life

He was born in Odessa, Russia on December 21, 1907.[1]

Career

He earned his Ph.D. from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in München (February 26, 1930) on a dissertation entitled Über die Ränderzuordnung bei konformen Abbildungen, advised by Constantin Carathéodory.[2]

He joined the faculty of Mathematics at Harvard University (as Benjamin Peirce Instructor, 1932–33),[3][4] at University of Rochester (1941–55), at The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (1952–53), at University of Notre Dame (1955–63), and at Wayne State University in Detroit (since 1963).

During World War II, he was with the Montreal Theory group for the National Research Council of Canada.[5]

The Seidel class is named after him.[6]

He was married to Leah Lappin-Seidel (1904–1999).[7]

Publications

References

  1. Maryann Mahaffey; Detroit (Mich.). City Council (1977). Journal of the Common Council of the city of Detroit. https://books.google.com/books?id=_5tNAAAAMAAJ. 
  2. Wladimir Seidel at Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. A conversation with Joe Doob on how Seidel assisted Doob in his doctoral thesis work (1932)
  4. Snell, J.L. (1997). "A conversation with Joe Doob". JSTOR. pp. 301–311. doi:10.1214/ss/1030037961. 
  5. Williams, M.M.R. (2000). "The development of nuclear reactor theory in the Montreal Laboratory of the National Research Council of Canada (Division of Atomic Energy) 1943–1946". Progress in Nuclear Energy (Elsevier) 36 (3): 239–322. doi:10.1016/s0149-1970(00)00011-1. 
  6. Jun Shung Hwang (1983). On the Generalized Seidel Class U. 276. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. pp. 336–346. 
  7. obituary of Leah Lappin-Seidel