Otto Blumenthal
- Category : 1876-births
- Type : GE
- Profile : 3/5 - Martyr / Heretic
- Definition : Split - Small (10,12,20,29,36,48)
- Incarnation Cross : RAX Laws 2
Biography
German mathematician and professor at RWTH Aachen University, who, in 1913, 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, making it an example of Stigler's Law.
A student of David Hilbert, Blumenthal was an editor of Mathematische Annalen.
Blumenthal, who was of Jewish background, emigrated from Nazi Germany to the Netherlands, lived in Utrecht and was deported via Westerbork to the concentration camp, Theresienstadt in Bohemia (now Czech Republic), where he died on 12 November 1944, aged 68.