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'''Wladimir P. Seidel''' ([[December 21]], [[1906]] - [[January 12]], [[1981]] in [[Detroit]]) was a German-American mathematician.
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'''Wladimir P. Seidel''' (December 21, 1907 &ndash; January 12, 1981) was a [[Russians|Russian]]-born [[German American|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]].
He got 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]].<ref>[http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=27030 entry] at [[Mathematics Genealogy Project]]</ref>
He joined the mathematics faculty at
[[Harvard University]] (as [[Benjamin Peirce]] Instructor, 1932-33),<ref>[http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/Doob/conversation.html A conversation with Joe Doob] on how Seidel assisted Doob in his doctoral thesis work (1932)</ref>
[[University of Rochester]] (1941-55),
math department at [[Institute for Advanced Study]] in [[Princeton, New Jersey|Princeton]] (1952-53)
[[University of Notre Dame]] (1955-63), and
[[Wayne State University]] in [[Detroit]] (1963-).
During [[world war II]], he was with the ''Montreal Theory'' group for [[National Research Council of Canada]].<ref>M. M. R. Williams, [http://www.nea.fr/html/dbprog/mmrw/Prog_N_En/PNE.pdf The Development of Nuclear Reactor Theory in the Montreal Laboratory of the National Research Council of Canada (Division of Atomic Energy) 1943-1946], in Progress of Nuclear Technology, 36(3):239-322, 2000</ref>
The [[Seidel class]] is named after him.<ref>[[Jun Shung Hwang]], ''On the Generalized Seidel Class U'' in ''Transactions of the [[American Mathematical Society]], 276(1):335-346, 1983.</ref>


==Life==
He was married to Leah Lappin-Seidel (1904-99).<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05E5D81738F93AA15751C1A96F958260 obituary of Leah Lappin-Seidel]</ref>
He was born in [[Odessa]], [[Russian Empire]] on December 21, 1907.<ref>{{cite journal |title = Journal of the Common Council of the city of Detroit |author = [[Maryann Mahaffey]]; Detroit (Mich.). City Council |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=_5tNAAAAMAAJ |year = 1977}}</ref>

==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]].<ref>[http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=27030 Wladimir Seidel] at [[Mathematics Genealogy Project]]</ref>

He joined the faculty of Mathematics at [[Harvard University]] (as [[Benjamin Peirce]] Instructor, 1932–33),<ref>[http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/Doob/conversation.html A conversation with Joe Doob] on how Seidel assisted Doob in his doctoral thesis work (1932)</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title = A conversation with Joe Doob|author = Snell, J.L.|journal = Statistical Science|volume = 12|number = 4|pages = 301–311|year = 1997|publisher = JSTOR|doi=10.1214/ss/1030037961|doi-access = free}}</ref> at [[University of Rochester]] (1941–55), at [[Institute for Advanced Study|The Institute for Advanced Study]] in [[Princeton, New Jersey|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]].<ref>{{cite journal|title = The development of nuclear reactor theory in the Montreal Laboratory of the National Research Council of Canada (Division of Atomic Energy) 1943–1946|author = Williams, M.M.R.|journal = Progress in Nuclear Energy|volume = 36|number = 3|pages = 239–322|year = 2000|publisher = Elsevier|doi=10.1016/s0149-1970(00)00011-1}}</ref>

The [[Seidel class]] is named after him.<ref>{{cite journal |author = [[Jun Shung Hwang]] |title = On the Generalized Seidel Class ''U'' |publisher = Transactions of the [[American Mathematical Society]] |volume = 276 |issue = 1 |year= 1983 |pages = 336–346 }}</ref>

He was married to Leah Lappin-Seidel (1904–1999).<ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05E5D81738F93AA15751C1A96F958260 obituary of Leah Lappin-Seidel]</ref>


==Publications==
==Publications==
*''Note on a Metrically Transitive System'', [[Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences]], 19(4):453-456, 1933
*{{Cite journal|author=Wladimir Seidel|title=''Note on a Metrically Transitive System''|journal=[[Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences]]|volume=19|issue=4|pages=453–456|year=1933|pmc=1086021|doi=10.1073/pnas.19.4.453|pmid=16577539|bibcode=1933PNAS...19..453S|doi-access=free}}
*''On a Metric Property of Fuchsian Groups'', [[Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences]], 21(7):475-478, 1935
*{{cite journal|author=Wladimir Seidel|title=''On a Metric Property of Fuchsian Groups''|journal=[[Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences]]|volume=21|issue=7|pages=475–478|year=1935|pmc=1076630|doi=10.1073/pnas.21.7.475|pmid=16588004|bibcode=1935PNAS...21..475S|doi-access=free}}
*''An example in conformal mapping'', [[Duke Mathematical Journal]], 15(?):137-143, 1948. With [[Arthur J. Lohwater]]
*{{cite journal|author=Wladimir Seidel|author2 = [[Arthur J. Lohwater]]|title=''An example in conformal mapping''|journal=[[Duke Mathematical Journal]]|volume=15|issue=1|pages=137–143|year=1948|mr=0023903|doi=10.1215/s0012-7094-48-01516-6}}
*{{cite journal
|author = Franz Schnitzer
|author2 = Wladimir Seidel
|title = On the modulus of unbounded holomorphic functions
|journal = Mathematische Zeitschrift
|volume = 88
|year = 1965
|pages = 301–308
|issue = 4
|doi = 10.1007/BF01111814
|s2cid = 120723458
}}
*{{cite journal
|author = F. Bagemihl
|author2 = W. Seidel
|title = Koebe arcs and Fatou points of normal functions
|journal = [[Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici]]
|volume = 36
|year = 1962
|pages = 9–18
|issue = 1
|doi = 10.1007/BF02566888
|s2cid = 121094714
}}
*{{cite journal
|author = W. Seidel
|title = Book Review: Cluster sets
|journal = Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
|volume = 68
|year = 1962
|pages = 551–553
|issue = 6
|doi = 10.1090/S0002-9904-1962-10837-4
|doi-access = free
}}
*{{cite journal
|author = W. Seidel
|title = Review: Kiyoshi Noshiro, Cluster sets
|journal = Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
|volume = 68
|year = 1962
|pages = 551–552
|issue = 1962
|doi=10.1090/s0002-9904-1962-10837-4
|doi-access = free
}}
*{{cite journal
|author = F. Bagemihl
|author2 = W. Seidel
|title = Behavior of meromorphic functions on boundary paths, with applications to normal functions
|journal = Archiv der Mathematik
|volume = 11
|year = 1960
|pages = 263–269
|issue = 1
|doi = 10.1007/BF01236942
|s2cid = 120462472
}}
*{{cite journal
|author = W. Seidel
|title = Holomorphic functions with spiral asymptotic paths
|journal = Nagoya Mathematical Journal
|year = 1959
|volume = 14
|pages = 159–171
|issue = 1959
|doi = 10.1017/S0027763000005821
|doi-access = free
}}
*{{cite journal
|author = F. Bagemihl
|author2 = W. Seidel
|title = Functions of bounded characteristic with prescribed ambiguous points
|journal = Michigan Mathematical Journal
|volume = 3
|year = 1956
|pages = 77–81
|issue = 1955
|doi = 10.1307/mmj/1031710538
|doi-access = free
}}
*{{cite journal
|author = F. Bagemihl
|author2 = W. Seidel
|title = A problem concerning cluster sets of analytic functions
|journal = Mathematische Zeitschrift
|volume = 62
|year = 1955
|pages = 99–110
|issue = 1
|doi = 10.1007/BF01180626
|s2cid = 122574500
}}
*{{cite journal
|author = F. Bagemihl
|author2 = W. Seidel
|title = Some remarks on boundary behavior of analytic and meromorphic functions
|journal = Nagoya Mathematical Journal
|year = 1955
|volume = 9
|pages = 79–85
|issue = 1955
|doi = 10.1017/S0027763000023308
|doi-access = free
}}
*{{cite journal
|author = F. Bagemihl
|author2 = W. Seidel
|title = Some boundary properties of analytic functions
|journal = Mathematische Zeitschrift
|volume = 61
|year = 1954
|pages = 186–199
|issue = 1
|doi = 10.1007/BF01181342
|s2cid = 120627257
}}
*{{cite journal
|author = F. Bagemihl
|author2 = W. Seidel
|title = A General Principle Involving Baire Category, with Applications to Function Theory and Other Fields
|journal = Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
|volume = 39
|year = 1953
|pages = 1068–1075
|issue = 10
|doi = 10.1073/pnas.39.10.1068
|pmc = 1063907
|pmid=16589375
|bibcode = 1953PNAS...39.1068B
|doi-access = free
}}
*{{cite journal
|author = W. Seidel
|title = Note on a persymmetric determinant
|journal = Quarterly Journal of Mathematics
|volume = 4
|year = 1953
|pages = 150–151
|issue = 1
|doi = 10.1093/qmath/4.1.150
|bibcode = 1953QJMat...4..150S
}}
*{{cite journal
|title= Über die Ränderzuordnung bei konformen Abbildungen
|author = Seidel, W.
|journal = Mathematische Annalen
|volume = 104
|number = 1
|pages = 182–243
|year = 1931
|publisher = Springer
|doi=10.1007/bf01457932
|s2cid = 119959703
}}


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Latest revision as of 07:47, 15 October 2024

Wladimir Seidel
Born(1907-12-21)December 21, 1907
Odessa Russian Empire
DiedJanuary 12, 1981(1981-01-12) (aged 73)
Detroit, Michigan
Alma materLudwig-Maximilians-Universität
Known forSeidel class
Scientific career
Thesis Über 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

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

Career

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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

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References

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  1. ^ Maryann Mahaffey; Detroit (Mich.). City Council (1977). "Journal of the Common Council of the city of Detroit". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  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". Statistical Science. 12 (4). JSTOR: 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. 36 (3). Elsevier: 239–322. doi:10.1016/s0149-1970(00)00011-1.
  6. ^ Jun Shung Hwang (1983). "On the Generalized Seidel Class U". 276 (1). Transactions of the American Mathematical Society: 336–346. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. ^ obituary of Leah Lappin-Seidel


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