Otto Blumenthal Explained

Ludwig Otto Blumenthal
Birth Date:20 July 1876
Birth Place:Frankfurt, Hesse-Nassau
Death Place:Theresienstadt concentration camp, Czechoslovakia
Alma Mater:Göttingen University
Thesis Title:Über die Entwicklung einer willkürlichen Funktion nach den Nennern des Kettenbruches

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Thesis Year:1898
Doctoral Advisor:David Hilbert
Doctoral Students:Karl Gehlen
Known For:Editor of Mathematische Annalen, 1906-1938
Spouse:Mali Ebstein
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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, Hesse-Nassau. A student of David Hilbert, Blumenthal was an editor of Mathematische Annalen. When the Civil Service Act of 1933 became law in 1933, after Hitler became Chancellor, Blumenthal was dismissed from his position at RWTH Aachen University.[1] [2] He was married to Amalie Ebstein, also known as 'Mali'[3] and daughter of Wilhelm Ebstein.

Blumenthal, who was of Jewish background, emigrated from Nazi Germany 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 applied mathematics and aerodynamics by building on Joukowsky's work to extract the complex transformation that carries the latter's name,[4] making it an example of Stigler's Law.

Selected publications

References

  1. Book: BRILL. 978-90-04-29639-8. Voices from Exile: Essays in Memory of Hamish Ritchie. 2015-06-05.
  2. Book: Cambridge University Press. 978-1-107-00684-3. Hoffmann. Dieter. Walker. Mark. The German Physical Society in the Third Reich: Physicists Between Autonomy and Accommodation. 2012 .
  3. Book: Hartung-Gorre Verlag. 978-3-86628-384-8. Felsch. Volkmar. Otto Blumenthals Tagebücher. 2011.
  4. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19930090787_1993090787.pdf NASA technical report