Wladimir Seidel

Wladimir P. Seidel (December 21, 1906 - January 12, 1981 in Detroit) was a German-American mathematician.

He got his Ph.D. from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in München (February 26, 1930) on a dissertation entitled Über die Ränderzuordnung bei konformen Abbildungen, advised by Constantin Carathéodory.^[1] He joined the mathematics faculty at Harvard University (as Benjamin Peirce Instructor, 1932–33),^[2] University of Rochester (1941–55), math department at Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (1952–53) University of Notre Dame (1955–63), and Wayne State University in Detroit (1963-). During World War II, he was with the Montreal Theory group for National Research Council of Canada.^[3] The Seidel class is named after him.^[4]

He was married to Leah Lappin-Seidel (1904–99).^[5]

Publications

Note on a Metrically Transitive System, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 19(4):453-456, 1933
On a Metric Property of Fuchsian Groups, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 21(7):475-478, 1935
An example in conformal mapping, Duke Mathematical Journal, 15(?):137-143, 1948. With Arthur J. Lohwater

References

^ entry at Mathematics Genealogy Project
^ A conversation with Joe Doob on how Seidel assisted Doob in his doctoral thesis work (1932)
^ M. M. R. Williams, The Development of Nuclear Reactor Theory in the Montreal Laboratory of the National Research Council of Canada (Division of Atomic Energy) 1943-1946, in Progress of Nuclear Technology, 36(3):239-322, 2000
^ Jun Shung Hwang, On the Generalized Seidel Class U in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 276(1):335-346, 1983.
^ obituary of Leah Lappin-Seidel