Leonard Blumenthal

Leonard Mascot Blumenthal (February 27, 1901 – August 1984) was an American mathematician.

He received his Ph.D. in 1927 from Johns Hopkins University, under the supervision of Frank Morley; his dissertation was titled Lagrange Resolvents in Euclidean Geometry.^[1] He taught for the majority of his professional career at the University of Missouri and was the author of A Modern View of Geometry.^[2]

According to the Mathematics Genealogy Project, he had 18 Ph.D. students at Missouri, among them Leroy Milton Kelly and William Arthur Kirk; he is the academic ancestor of over 80 mathematicians.^[1]

The Leonard M. Blumenthal Distinguished Professorship in Mathematics at the University of Missouri was established in 1992 in honor of Blumenthal. This endowed chair is given on a five-year rotating basis to Missouri mathematics professors; the Blumenthal Professors at Missouri have included John Beem, Mark Ashbaugh, Alex Koldobsky, and Zhenbo Qin.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b Leonard Mascot Blumenthal at the Mathematics Genealogy Project..
^ W. H. Freeman, 1961, and Dover Publications, 1980, ISBN 9780486639628.
^ Leonard M. Blumenthal Distinguished Professorship in Mathematics, University of Missouri Department of Mathematics.

Works

Blumenthal L.M. Theory and applications of distance geometry (1953), Oxford: At the Clarendon Press (Geoffrey Cumberlege), XI, 347 p.
Blumenthal L.M. Theory and applications of distance geometry, (2nd edition, 1970), Bronx, New York: Chelsea Publishing Company. XI, 347 p., ISBN 0-8284-0242-6

External links

Leonard Blumenthal at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

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Name	Blumenthal, Leonard
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Date of birth	February 27, 1901
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Date of death	1984
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