Leonard Blumenthal

Leonard Mascot Blumenthal (February 27, 1901 – August 1984) was a Jewish[1] American mathematician.

Career

He received his Ph.D. in 1927 from Johns Hopkins University, under the supervision of Frank Morley; his dissertation was titled Lagrange Resolvents in Euclidean Geometry.[2] He taught for the majority of his professional career at the University of Missouri and was the author of A Modern View of Geometry.[3]

He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study from 1933 to 1936.[4] According to the Mathematics Genealogy Project, he had 18 Ph.D. students at Missouri, among them Leroy Milton Kelly and William Arthur Kirk; he is the academic ancestor of over 80 mathematicians.[2]

Legacy

The Leonard M. Blumenthal Distinguished Professorship in Mathematics at the University of Missouri was established in 1992 in honor of Blumenthal. This endowed chair is given on a five-year rotating basis to Missouri mathematics professors; the Blumenthal Professors at Missouri have included John Beem, Mark Ashbaugh, Alex Koldobsky, and Zhenbo Qin.[5] The American Mathematical Society also issued the Blumenthal Award in his honor.

References

  1. ^ Runes, Dagobert D. (1951). The Hebrew Impact on Western Civilization. New York: Philosophical Library. ISBN 978-1-5040-1296-6.
  2. ^ a b Leonard Mascot Blumenthal at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
  3. ^ W. H. Freeman, 1961, and Dover Publications, 1980, ISBN 978-0-486-63962-8.
  4. ^ Institute for Advanced Study: A Community of Scholars
  5. ^ Leonard M. Blumenthal Distinguished Professorship in Mathematics Archived 2010-06-17 at the Wayback Machine, University of Missouri Department of Mathematics.

Works

  • Blumenthal L.M. Theory and applications of distance geometry (1953), Oxford: At the Clarendon Press (Geoffrey Cumberlege), XI, 347 p.
  • Blumenthal L.M. Theory and applications of distance geometry, (2nd edition, 1970), Bronx, New York: Chelsea Publishing Company. XI, 347 p., ISBN 0-8284-0242-6
  • Blumenthal L.M. A Modern View of Geometry (1961), W. H. Freeman & Co.; Dover edition (1980) ISBN 0-486-63962-2


Flag of United StatesScientist icon

This article about an American mathematician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.