Michael Sadowsky Explained

Michael Sadowsky
Birth Date:	1902
Fields:	elasticity materials science
Workplaces:	Illinois Institute of Technology Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Alma Mater:	Technische Universität Berlin
Doctoral Advisor:	Georg Hamel
Doctoral Students:	Eli Sternberg

Michael A. Sadowsky (1902 – December 31, 1967)^[1] was a researcher in solid mechanics, particularly the mathematical theory of elasticity and materials science. Born in the Russian Empire, he earned his doctorate in 1927 under the applied mathematician Georg Hamel at Technische Hochschule Berlin-Charlottenburg with a dissertation entitled Spatially periodic solutions in the theory of elasticity (in German).^[2] He made contributions in the use of potential functions in elasticity and force transfer mechanisms in composites. Many of his early papers were written in German.^[3]

Selected publications

Tetrahedral Riemann Surface Model of a Closed Finite Locally-Euclidean Two-Space. The American Mathematical Monthly. 46. 4. April 1939. 199–202. 10.2307/2303065. 2303065. Sadowsky. Michael.
The American Mathematical Monthly. Formula for Approximate Computation of a Triple Integral. 47. 8. October 1940. 539–543. 10.2307/2303834. 2303834. Sadowsky. Michael.
The American Mathematical Monthly. 50. 1. January 1943. Equiareal Patterns The American Mathematical Monthly. 35–40. 10.2307/2303990. 2303990.
with E. Sternberg: Elliptic integral representation of axially symmetric flows. Quart. Appl. Math.. 8. 1950. 113–126. 10.1090/qam/37425. 37425. free. Sadowsky. M. A.. Sternberg. E.. 2.

References

Obituaries. Mechanical Engineering. 90. 113. American Society of Mechanical Engineers. 1968. March 23, 2018.
Schmiedeshoff FW (1968) In Memory of Dr Michael A Sadowsky, Journal of Composite Materials 2, 126.
Hinz DF and Fried E (2014) Translation of Michael Sadowsky’s Paper "An Elementary Proof for the Existence of a Developable Möbius Band and the Attribution of the Geometric Problem to a Variational Problem", Journal of Elasticity .