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Martin Wilhelm Kutta
Martin Wilhelm Kutta (1867-1944)Born November 3, 1867
Pitschen, Upper SilesiaDied December 25, 1944 (aged 77)
Fürstenfeldbruck, GermanyResidence Germany Nationality German Fields Mathematician Institutions University of Stuttgart
RWTH AachenAlma mater University of Breslau
University of MunichDoctoral advisor C. L. Ferdinand Lindemann
Gustav A. BauerOther academic advisors Walther Franz Anton von Dyck Known for Runge-Kutta method
Zhukovsky-Kutta aerofoil
Kutta–Joukowski theorem
Kutta conditionMartin 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.
References
- ^ Kutta, Wilhelm Martin in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
External links
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Martin Wilhelm Kutta", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Kutta.html.
- Martin Wilhelm Kutta at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
Categories:- 1867 births
- 1944 deaths
- German mathematicians
- 19th-century mathematicians
- 20th-century mathematicians
- Numerical analysts
- Aerodynamicists
- People from the Province of Silesia
- University of Breslau alumni
- University of Jena faculty
- University of Stuttgart faculty
- RWTH Aachen University faculty
- Fluid dynamicists
- German mathematician stubs
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