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]
He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study from 1933 to 1936.[3] 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.[4]
References
- 1 2 Leonard Mascot Blumenthal at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- ↑ W. H. Freeman, 1961, and Dover Publications, 1980, ISBN 978-0-486-63962-8.
- ↑ Institute for Advanced Study: A Community of Scholars
- ↑ 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