Blessed Brodetsky

Selig Brodetsky (born February 10, 1888 in Olwiopol , today Ukraine, † May 20, 1954 in London ) was a British professor of mathematics, member of the World Zionist Executive , President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the second President of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem .

He grew up in the Ukraine and the family emigrated to London in 1894 . He studied from 1905 at Trinity College, Cambridge . He had a study visit to Leipzig in 1914 and received his doctorate there that same year under Gustav Herglotz ( The potential of a homogeneous convex body and the direct integration of the potential of an ellipsoid ). He became a lecturer at Leeds University in 1919 . Five years later he was appointed professor. His main research interests were applied mathematics , aircraft mechanics and the history of mathematics. In 1949 he became the second president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was committed to the state of Israel and the people of the Jewish faith. He was a participant in the Seelisberg Conference in 1947.

Works

• Memoirs. From Ghetto to Israel, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1960
• The meaning of mathematics, London, E. Benn 1929
• Sir Isaac Newton. A brief account of his life and work, London, Methuen 1927
• A first course to Nomography, London, G. Bell and sons, 1925
• The mechanical principles of the airplane, London, J. & A. Churchill, 1921
• The potential of a homogeneous convex body, and the direct integration of the potential of an ellipsoid. - Leipzig: Fock, 1914 (dissertation)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project