Martin Wilhelm Kutta
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Martin Wilhelm Kutta (November 3, 1867 – December 25, 1944) was a German mathematician.
Kutta was born in Pitschen, Upper Silesia (today Byczyna, Poland). He attended the University of Breslau from 1885 to 1890, and continued his studies in Munich until 1894, where he became the assistant of Walther Franz Anton von Dyck. From 1898, he spent a year at the University of Cambridge. Kutta became professor in Stuttgart in 1911, where he stayed until his retirement in 1935.
In 1901, he had co-developed the Runge-Kutta method, used to solve ordinary differential equations numerically. He is also remembered for the Zhukovsky-Kutta aerofoil, the Kutta–Joukowski theorem and the Kutta condition in aerodynamics.
Kutta died in Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany.
[edit] External links
- O'Connor, John J. & Robertson, Edmund F., “Martin Wilhelm Kutta”, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- Martin Wilhelm Kutta at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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