Sydney Goldstein ( English Sydney Goldstein ; December 3, 1903 , Hull , England - January 22, 1989 , Belmont , Massachusetts , USA ) - British scientist in the field of mathematics and mechanics.
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Biography
Born in a family of immigrants from Kovno ( Russian Empire ), Joseph Goldstein (1876-1917) and Hilda Harris (1879-1914). Early left without parents. He studied at the school in Sunderland , continued his studies at the University of Leeds (1921), where he studied mathematics, after he moved to the College of St. John at Cambridge , which he graduated in 1925. Supervisor - Harold Jeffreys . Received the Smith Award in 1927.
In 1928 he defended his doctoral thesis "The theory and application of Mathieu functions." He received the support of the Rockefeller Science Foundation and trained for a year at the University of Göttingen .
In 1929, he became a member of St. John's College, but later in the same year he began to give lectures in mathematics at the University of Manchester . He was greatly influenced by Osborne Reynolds and Horace Lamb . In 1931 he moved to Cambridge, began editing the modern work on hydrodynamics, performed earlier by Lamb. C 1937 member of the Royal Society of London .
During the Second World War, conducted research on the theory of the boundary layer , as an employee of the National Physical Laboratory.
He strongly supported the creation of the State of Israel in 1948 and in 1950 headed the department of mathematics at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. Realizing that administrative work was too hard for him, in 1954 he moved to Harvard University , a professor of applied mathematics.
He retired in 1968, an honorary professor at Harvard University. In 1975 he was elected a foreign member of the Finnish Scientific Society.
Research Interests
- Taylor – Goldstein equation
Colleague Assessments
According to Lighthill Goldstein - "One of those who most influenced the progress in fluid dynamics in the 20th century" [4]
Bibliography
The current state of fluid dynamics of a viscous fluid, t. I — II. State publish foreign l-ry, 1948 [5]
Awards
- 1927 Smith Prize
- 1934 Adams Award
- 1965 Tymoshenko Medal
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Archive for the History of Mathematics McTutor
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ 1 2 KNAW Past Members
- Lighthill, J. (1990). “Sydney Goldstein. 3 December 1903-22 January 1989. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 36: 174. doi: 10.1098 / rsbm.1990.0029.
- ↑ MFN Catalog