| Martin Wilhelm Kutta | |
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Martin Wilhelm Kutta (1867-1944)
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| Born | November 3, 1867 Pitschen, Upper Silesia |
| Died | December 25, 1944 (aged 77) Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany |
| Residence | Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Fields | Mathematician |
| Institutions | University of Stuttgart RWTH Aachen |
| Alma mater | University of Breslau University of Munich |
| Doctoral advisor | C. L. Ferdinand Lindemann Gustav A. Bauer |
| Other academic advisors | Walther Franz Anton von Dyck |
| Known for | Runge-Kutta method Zhukovsky-Kutta aerofoil Kutta–Joukowski theorem Kutta condition |
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.[1] He was professor at the RWTH Aachen from 1900 to 1912. Kutta became professor at the University of Stuttgart in 1912, where he stayed until his retirement in 1935.
In 1901, he co-developed the Runge-Kutta method, used to solve ordinary differential equations numerically. He is also remembered for the Zhukovsky-Kutta aerofoil, the Kutta-Zhukovsky theorem and the Kutta condition in aerodynamics. Kutta died in Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany in 1944.