Wladimir Seidel

Wladimir P. Seidel (21 December 1907 – 12 January 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, Russian Empire on 21 December 1907.

Career He obtained his Ph.D. from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München on 26 February 1930 with a dissertation entitled Über die Ränderzuordnung bei konformen Abbildungen, advised by Constantin Carathéodory.

He joined the faculty of Mathematics at Harvard University as Benjamin Peirce Instructor from 1932 to 1933, at University of Rochester from 1941 to 1955, at The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton from 1952 to 1953, at University of Notre Dame from 1955 to 1963, 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.

The Seidel class is named after him.

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

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