Wladimir Seidel Explained

Wladimir Seidel
Birth Date:	21 December 1907
Birth Place:	Odessa Russian Empire
Death Place:	Detroit, Michigan
Alma Mater:	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
Thesis Title:	Über die Ränderzuordnung bei konformen Abbildungen
Thesis Year:	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, Russian Empire 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. Note on a Metrically Transitive System. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 19. 4. 453–456. 1933. 1086021. 10.1073/pnas.19.4.453. 16577539. 1933PNAS...19..453S. free.
• Wladimir Seidel. On a Metric Property of Fuchsian Groups. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 21. 7. 475–478. 1935. 1076630. 10.1073/pnas.21.7.475. 16588004. 1935PNAS...21..475S. free.
• Wladimir Seidel. Arthur J. Lohwater. An example in conformal mapping. Duke Mathematical Journal. 15. 1. 137–143. 1948. 0023903. 10.1215/s0012-7094-48-01516-6.
• Franz Schnitzer . Wladimir Seidel. On the modulus of unbounded holomorphic functions. Mathematische Zeitschrift. 88. 1965. 301–308. 4. 10.1007/BF01111814. 120723458.
• F. Bagemihl . W. Seidel. Koebe arcs and Fatou points of normal functions. Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici. 36. 1962. 9–18. 1. 10.1007/BF02566888. 121094714.
• W. Seidel. Book Review: Cluster sets. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 68. 1962. 551–553. 6. 10.1090/S0002-9904-1962-10837-4. free.
• W. Seidel. Review: Kiyoshi Noshiro, Cluster sets. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 68. 1962. 551–552. 1962. 10.1090/s0002-9904-1962-10837-4. free.
• F. Bagemihl . W. Seidel. Behavior of meromorphic functions on boundary paths, with applications to normal functions. Archiv der Mathematik. 11. 1960. 263–269. 1. 10.1007/BF01236942. 120462472.
• W. Seidel. Holomorphic functions with spiral asymptotic paths. Nagoya Mathematical Journal. 1959. 14. 159–171. 1959. 10.1017/S0027763000005821. free.
• F. Bagemihl . W. Seidel. Functions of bounded characteristic with prescribed ambiguous points. Michigan Mathematical Journal. 3. 1956. 77–81. 1955. 10.1307/mmj/1031710538. free.
• F. Bagemihl . W. Seidel. A problem concerning cluster sets of analytic functions. Mathematische Zeitschrift. 62. 1955. 99–110. 1. 10.1007/BF01180626. 122574500.
• F. Bagemihl . W. Seidel. Some remarks on boundary behavior of analytic and meromorphic functions. Nagoya Mathematical Journal. 1955. 9. 79–85. 1955. 10.1017/S0027763000023308. free.
• F. Bagemihl . W. Seidel. Some boundary properties of analytic functions. Mathematische Zeitschrift. 61. 1954. 186–199. 1. 10.1007/BF01181342. 120627257.
• F. Bagemihl . W. Seidel. A General Principle Involving Baire Category, with Applications to Function Theory and Other Fields. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 39. 1953. 1068–1075. 10. 10.1073/pnas.39.10.1068. 1063907. 16589375. 1953PNAS...39.1068B. free.
• W. Seidel. Note on a persymmetric determinant. Quarterly Journal of Mathematics. 4. 1953. 150–151. 1. 10.1093/qmath/4.1.150. 1953QJMat...4..150S.
• Über die Ränderzuordnung bei konformen Abbildungen. Seidel, W.. Mathematische Annalen. 104. 1. 182–243. 1931. Springer. 10.1007/bf01457932. 119959703.

Notes and References

1. Journal of the Common Council of the city of Detroit . Maryann Mahaffey

   Detroit (Mich.). City Council

   . 1977.
2. http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=27030 Wladimir Seidel
3. http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/Doob/conversation.html A conversation with Joe Doob
4. A conversation with Joe Doob. Snell, J.L.. Statistical Science. 12. 4. 301–311. 1997. JSTOR. 10.1214/ss/1030037961. free.
5. The development of nuclear reactor theory in the Montreal Laboratory of the National Research Council of Canada (Division of Atomic Energy) 1943–1946. Williams, M.M.R.. Progress in Nuclear Energy. 36. 3. 239–322. 2000. Elsevier. 10.1016/s0149-1970(00)00011-1.
6. . On the Generalized Seidel Class U . . 276 . 1 . 1983 . 336–346 .
7. https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05E5D81738F93AA15751C1A96F958260 obituary of Leah Lappin-Seidel