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 dissertationentitled "Über die Ränderzuordnung bei konformen Abbildungen", advised by Constantin Carathéodory. [ [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=27030 entry] at mathematics geneaology] ] He joined the mathematics faculty at
Harvard University (as Benjamin Peirce Instructor, 1932-33), [ [http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/Doob/conversation.html A conversation with Joe Doob] on how Seidel assisted Doob in his doctoral thesis work (1932)]
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. [M. M. R. Williams, [http://www.nea.fr/html/dbprog/mmrw/Prog_N_En/PNE.pdf 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] The Seidel class is named after him. [Jun Shung Hwang, "On the Generalized Seidel Class U" in "Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 276(1):335-346, 1983.]

He was married to Leah Lappin-Seidel (1904-99). [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05E5D81738F93AA15751C1A96F958260 obituary of Leah Lappin-Seidel] ]

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

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