Sydney Goldstein

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Sydney Goldstein (born December 3, 1903 in Hull , † January 22, 1989 in Belmont (Massachusetts) ) was a British mathematician who dealt with hydrodynamics .

Goldstein studied mathematics from 1921 at the University of Leeds and then at Cambridge University , where he won the Smith Prize in 1927 and received his doctorate in 1928 under Harold Jeffreys on Mathieu functions. After a year at the University of Göttingen (in the Institute for Flow Research founded by Ludwig Prandtl ) he became a lecturer at Manchester University in 1929 (and in the same year a Fellow of St. John's College in Cambridge), where previously the hydrodynamicist Osborne Reynolds and until his retirement in 1920 Horace Lamb worked. In 1931 Goldstein was back in Cambridge, where he took over the publication of Modern Developments in Fluid Dynamics (1938) from Lamb, who died in 1934 . During the Second World War he worked at the National Physical Laboratories. After the war he became a professor of applied mathematics in Manchester, but went to the Technion in Haifa in 1950 . Since he did not like the administrative work, he moved to Harvard University in 1955 .

Goldstein dealt in particular with the numerical solution of boundary layer theory (von Prandtl), aerodynamics and especially the resistance of rotating disks in liquids (1935). He was considered one of the UK's leading specialists in hydrodynamics.

In 1935 he received the Adams Prize. In 1937 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society . In 1956 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He was an external member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences and the Finnish Science Society (Suomen Tiedeseura). 1946 to 1949 he was chairman of the Aeronautical Research Council. In 1954 he gave a plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Amsterdam ( On some methods of approximation in fluid mechanics ). In 1984 he received the GI Taylor Medal .

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  • as editor: Modern developments in fluid mechanics, Oxford, Clarendon Press 1938, Dover 1965
  • Lectures on Fluid Mechanics, Interscience, New York 1960
  • Views on the meaning of Zionism and of applied mathematics fifty years ago and now, Leeds University Press 1973

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SURNAME Goldstein, Sydney
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British mathematician and hydrodynamicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Hull
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1989
Place of death Belmont, Massachusetts