Wladimir Seidel
Wladimir P. Seidel (December 21, 1906 - January 12, 1981 in Detroit) was a German-American mathematician.
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.[1] He joined the mathematics faculty at Harvard University (as Benjamin Peirce Instructor, 1932-33),[2] University of Rochester (1941-55), math department at Institute for Advanced Study in 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.[3] The Seidel class is named after him.[4]
He was married to Leah Lappin-Seidel (1904-99).[5]
Publications
- Note on a Metrically Transitive System, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 19(4):453-456, 1933
- On a Metric Property of Fuchsian Groups, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 21(7):475-478, 1935
- An example in conformal mapping, Duke Mathematical Journal, 15(?):137-143, 1948. With Arthur J. Lohwater
References
- ^ entry at Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ A conversation with Joe Doob on how Seidel assisted Doob in his doctoral thesis work (1932)
- ^ M. M. R. Williams, 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
- ^ Jun Shung Hwang, On the Generalized Seidel Class U in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 276(1):335-346, 1983.
- ^ obituary of Leah Lappin-Seidel
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