Otto Blumenthal
Ludwig Otto Blumenthal | |
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Born |
Frankfurt | 20 July 1876
Died |
12 November 1944 68) Theresienstadt concentration camp | (aged
Alma mater | Göttingen University |
Thesis | Über die Entwicklung einer willkürlichen Funktion nach den Nennern des Kettenbruches (1898) |
Doctoral advisor | David Hilbert |
Doctoral students | Erich Breuer, Bruno Eck, Karl Gehlen, Ernst Münter, Fritz Wingerter |
Known for | Editor of Mathematische Annalen, 1906-1938 |
Spouse | Mali Ebstein |
Children | Margrete (born 1911), Ernst (born 1914) |
Ludwig Otto Blumenthal (20 July 1876 – 12 November 1944) was a German mathematician and professor at RWTH Aachen University.
Biography
He was born in Frankfurt, Prussia. A student of David Hilbert, Blumenthal was an editor of Mathematische Annalen.
Blumenthal, who was of Jewish background, emigrated from the Nazis to the Netherlands, lived in Utrecht and was deported via Westerbork to the concentration camp, Theresienstadt in Bohemia (now Czech Republic), where he died.
In 1913, Blumenthal made a fundamental, though often overlooked, contribution to aerodynamics by building on Joukowsky's work to extract the complex transformation that carries the latter's name ,(making it an example of Stigler's Law.
Selected publications
- Otto Blumenthal (1903). "Zum Eliminationsproblem bei analytischen Funktionen mehrerer Veränderlicher" (PDF). Math. Ann. 57: 356—368. doi:10.1007/bf01444291.
- Otto Blumenthal (1904). "Über Thetafunktionen und Modulfunktionen mehrerer Veränderlicher" (PDF). Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung. 13: 126—138.
- Otto Blumenthal (1905). "Über die Zerlegung unendlicher Vektorfelder" (PDF). Math. Ann. 61: 235—250. doi:10.1007/bf01457564.
- Otto Blumenthal (1907). "Über ganze transzendnete Funktionen" (PDF). Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung. 16: 97—109.
- Otto Blumenthal (1916). "Einige Minimums-Sätze über trigonometrische und rationale Polynome" (PDF). Math. Ann. 77: 390—403. doi:10.1007/bf01475868.
- Otto Blumenthal (1931). "Über rationale Polynome mit einer Minimumseigenschaft" (PDF). Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik. 165: 237—246.
- Otto Blumenthal (1935). "Lebensgeschichte". Analysis — Grundlagen der Mathematik — Physik — Verschiedenes — Nebst einer Lebensgeschichte. David Hilbert — Gesammelte Abhandlungen. 3. Berlin: Julius Springer. pp. 388—429.
- Otto Blumenthal (1935). "Zu den Entwicklungen nach Eigenfunktionen linearer symmetrischer Integralgleichungen" (PDF). Mathematische Annalen. 110: 726—733. doi:10.1007/bf01448053.
References
- Heinrich Behnke (1958). "Otto Blumenthal zum Gedächtnis" (PDF). Mathematische Annalen (in German). 136 (5): 387–392. doi:10.1007/bf01347791.
External links
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Otto Blumenthal", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
- Media related to Otto Blumenthal at Wikimedia Commons
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