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German mathematician
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20 July 1876(Frankfurt, Darmstadt Government Region, Hesse, Germany)
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13 November 1944(Theresienstadt concentration camp, Terezín, Litoměřice District, Ústí nad Labem Region)
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Ludwig Otto Blumenthal (20 July 1876 – 12 November 1944) was a German mathematician and professor at RWTH Aachen University.
Biography
He was born in Frankfurt, Prussia. A student of David Hilbert, Blumenthal was an editor of Mathematische Annalen.
Blumenthal, who was of Jewish background, emigrated from the Nazis to the Netherlands, lived in Utrecht and was deported via Westerbork to the concentration camp, Theresienstadt in Bohemia (now Czech Republic), where he died.
In 1913, Blumenthal made a fundamental, though often overlooked, contribution to aerodynamics by building on Joukowsky's work to extract the complex transformation that carries the latter's name [1],(making it an example of Stigler's Law.