Wladimir P. Seidel was a German

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-American

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mathematician

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He got his Ph.D.

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 from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in München (February 26, 1930) on a dissertation
entitled Über die Ränderzuordnung bei konformen Abbildungen, advised by Constantin Carathéodory

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He joined the mathematics faculty at
Harvard University

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 (as Benjamin Peirce

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 Instructor, 1932–33),
University of Rochester

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 (1941–55),
math department at Institute for Advanced Study

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 in Princeton

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 (1952–53)
University of Notre Dame

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 (1955–63), and
Wayne State University

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 in Detroit (1963-).
During World War II

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, he was with the Montreal Theory group for National Research Council of Canada

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The Seidel class is named after him.

He was married to Leah Lappin-Seidel (1904–99).

Publications

• Note on a Metrically Transitive System, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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  , 19(4):453-456, 1933
• On a Metric Property of Fuchsian Groups, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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  , 21(7):475-478, 1935
• An example in conformal mapping, Duke Mathematical Journal
  Duke Mathematical Journal
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  , 15(?):137-143, 1948. With Arthur J. Lohwater
  Arthur J. Lohwater
  Arthur John "Jack" Lohwater was an American mathematician.He obtained a Ph.D. in mathematics at University of Rochester , on the dissertation The Boundary Values of a Class of Analytic Functions, advised by Wladimir Seidel.Later he joined the faculty at University of Michigan and Case Western...