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

^ Runes, Dagobert D. (1951). The Hebrew Impact on Western Civilization. New York: Philosophical Library. ISBN 978-1-5040-1296-6.
^ ^a ^b Leonard Mascot Blumenthal at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
^ W. H. Freeman, 1961, and Dover Publications, 1980, ISBN 978-0-486-63962-8.
^ Institute for Advanced Study: A Community of Scholars
^ 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

External links

Leonard Blumenthal at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

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[runes-1] Runes, Dagobert D. (1951). The Hebrew Impact on Western Civilization. New York: Philosophical Library. ISBN 978-1-5040-1296-6.

[mathgenealogy-2] 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.

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