Wladimir Seidel

Wladimir P. Seidel (December 21, 1906 - January 12, 1981 in Detroit) was a German-American mathematician. He got 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. He joined the mathematics faculty at Harvard University (as Benjamin Peirce Instructor, 1932-33), University of Rochester (1941-55), math departm... more

Wladimir P. Seidel (December 21, 1906 - January 12, 1981 in Detroit) was a German-American mathematician. He got 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. He joined the mathematics faculty at Harvard University (as Benjamin Peirce Instructor, 1932-33), University of Rochester (1941-55), math department at Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (1952-53) University of Notre Dame (1955-63), and Wayne State University in Detroit (1963-). During world war II, he was with the Montreal Theory group for National Research Council of Canada. The Seidel class is named after him. He was married to Leah Lappin-Seidel (1904-99). less