Leonard Blumenthal

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Leonard Mascot Blumenthal (born February 27, 1901 in Athens (Georgia) , † August 11, 1984 ) was an American mathematician who studied geometry.

Blumenthal received his doctorate in 1927 from Johns Hopkins University under Frank Morley (Lagrange Resolvents in Euclidean Geometry). He was a professor at the University of Missouri . Most recently he was Defoe Distinguished Professor Emeritus. For many years he was the head of the mathematics faculty.

From 1933 to 1934 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study and from 1934/35 as a National Research Fellow at the University of Vienna , where he attended Karl Menger's Mathematical Colloquium . In 1967 he was Fulbright Professor at the University of Leiden and in 1954/55 at the University of Buenos Aires. In 1963 he became a foreign member of the Royal Spanish Academy of Sciences. 1960 to 1968 he was visiting professor for the Mathematical Association of America . In 1942 he was AMS Symposion Lecturer in Chicago.

Leroy Milton Kelly is one of his PhD students . An endowed professorship at the University of Missouri is named after him and an AMS dissertation award ( Blumenthal Award ) is awarded every four years .

Fonts

  • Theory and applications of distance geometry. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1953, 2nd edition Chelsea 1970
  • A Modern View of Geometry. Freeman 1961, Dover 1980
  • Development of abstract metrics. University of Missouri Press 1938
  • with Karl Menger : Studies in Geometry , Freeman 1970

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth and career dates according to the IAS 1980 membership book
  2. ^ Notice of Death in Notices of the AMS, Volume 31, 1984
  3. ↑ Leonard Blumenthal in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  4. ↑ IAS Membership Book 1980
  5. ↑ Leonard M. Blumenthal Distinguished Professorship in Mathematics, University of Missouri ( Memento of the original from June 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.math.missouri.edu
  6. ^ Leonard M. Blumenthal Award, AMS
personal data
SURNAME Blumenthal, Leonard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blumenthal, Leonard Mascot; Blumenthal, Leonard Mascott
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Athens (Georgia)
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1984