Leonard Blumenthal Explained

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. He taught for the majority of his professional career at the University of Missouri and was the author of A Modern View of Geometry.[2]

He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study from 1933 to 1936.[3] 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.[4]

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.

Works

Notes and References

  1. Book: Runes, Dagobert D.. The Hebrew Impact on Western Civilization. New York. Philosophical Library. 1951. 978-1-5040-1296-6.
  2. W. H. Freeman, 1961, and Dover Publications, 1980, .
  3. http://www.ias.edu/people/cos/ Institute for Advanced Study: A Community of Scholars
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  5. http://www.math.missouri.edu/alumni/blumenthal.html Leonard M. Blumenthal Distinguished Professorship in Mathematics