Wladimir Seidel

Wladimir Seidel
Born	December 21, 1907 Odessa Russian Empire
Died	January 12, 1981 (aged 73) Detroit, Michigan
Alma mater	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
Thesis	Über die Ränderzuordnung bei konformen Abbildungen (1930)
Doctoral advisor	Constantin Carathéodory
Known for	Seidel class

Wladimir P. Seidel (December 21, 1907 – January 12, 1981) was a Russian-born German-American mathematician, and Doctor of Mathematics. He held a fellowship as a Benjamin Peirce Professor in Harvard University. During World War II, he was with the Montreal Theory group for the National Research Council of Canada.

Life

He was born in Odessa, Russia on December 21, 1907.^[1]

Career

He earned his Ph.D. from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in München (February 26, 1930) on a dissertation entitled Über die Ränderzuordnung bei konformen Abbildungen, advised by Constantin Carathéodory.^[2]

He joined the faculty of Mathematics at Harvard University (as Benjamin Peirce Instructor, 1932–33),^[3][4] at University of Rochester (1941–55), at The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (1952–53), at University of Notre Dame (1955–63), and at Wayne State University in Detroit (since 1963).

During World War II, he was with the Montreal Theory group for the National Research Council of Canada.^[5]

The Seidel class is named after him.^[6]

He was married to Leah Lappin-Seidel (1904–1999).^[7]

Publications

• Wladimir Seidel (1933). "Note on a Metrically Transitive System". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 19 (4): 453–456. doi:10.1073/pnas.19.4.453. PMC 1086021. PMID 16577539.
• Wladimir Seidel (1935). "On a Metric Property of Fuchsian Groups". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 21 (7): 475–478. doi:10.1073/pnas.21.7.475. PMC 1076630. PMID 16588004.
• Wladimir Seidel; Arthur J. Lohwater (1948). "An example in conformal mapping". Duke Mathematical Journal 15 (1): 137–143. doi:10.1215/s0012-7094-48-01516-6. MR 0023903.
• Franz Schnitzer; Wladimir Seidel (1965). "On the modulus of unbounded holomorphic functions". Mathematische Zeitschrift 88 (4): 301–308. doi:10.1007/BF01111814.
• F. Bagemihl; W. Seidel (1962). "Koebe arcs and Fatou points of normal functions". Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici 36 (1): 9–18. doi:10.1007/BF02566888.
• W. Seidel (1962). "Book Review: Cluster sets". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 68 (6): 551–553. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1962-10837-4.
• W. Seidel (1962). "Review: Kiyoshi Noshiro, Cluster sets". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 68 (1962): 551–552. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1962-10837-4.
• F. Bagemihl; W. Seidel (1960). "Behavior of meromorphic functions on boundary paths, with applications to normal functions". Archiv der Mathematik 11 (1): 263–269. doi:10.1007/BF01236942.
• W. Seidel (1959). "Holomorphic functions with spiral asymptotic paths". Nagoya Mathematical Journal (1959): 159–171.
• F. Bagemihl; W. Seidel (1956). "Functions of bounded characteristic with prescribed ambiguous points". Michigan Mathematical Journal 3 (1955): 77–81. doi:10.1307/mmj/1031710538.
• F. Bagemihl; W. Seidel (1955). "A problem concerning cluster sets of analytic functions". Mathematische Zeitschrift 62 (1): 99–110. doi:10.1007/BF01180626.
• F. Bagemihl; W. Seidel (1955). "Some remarks on boundary behavior of analytic and meromorphic functions". Nagoya Mathematical Journal (1955): 79–85.
• F. Bagemihl; W. Seidel (1954). "Some boundary properties of analytic functions". Mathematische Zeitschrift 61 (1): 186–199. doi:10.1007/BF01181342.
• F. Bagemihl; W. Seidel (1953). "A General Principle Involving Baire Category, with Applications to Function Theory and Other Fields". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 39 (10): 1068–1075. doi:10.1073/pnas.39.10.1068.
• W. Seidel (1953). "Note on a persymmetric determinant". Quarterly Journal of Mathematics 4 (1): 150–151. doi:10.1093/qmath/4.1.150.
• Seidel, W. (1931). "Über die Ränderzuordnung bei konformen Abbildungen". Mathematische Annalen (Springer) 104 (1): 182–243. doi:10.1007/bf01457932.

References

1. Maryann Mahaffey; Detroit (Mich.). City Council (1977). "Journal of the Common Council of the city of Detroit".
2. Wladimir Seidel at Mathematics Genealogy Project
3. A conversation with Joe Doob on how Seidel assisted Doob in his doctoral thesis work (1932)
4. Snell, J.L. (1997). "A conversation with Joe Doob". Statistical Science. JSTOR. pp. 301–311. doi:10.1214/ss/1030037961.
5. Williams, M.M.R. (2000). "The development of nuclear reactor theory in the Montreal Laboratory of the National Research Council of Canada (Division of Atomic Energy) 1943–1946". Progress in Nuclear Energy (Elsevier) 36 (3): 239–322. doi:10.1016/s0149-1970(00)00011-1.
6. Jun Shung Hwang (1983). "On the Generalized Seidel Class U" 276 (1). Transactions of the American Mathematical Society: 336–346.
7. obituary of Leah Lappin-Seidel