Alexander Weinstein

Alexander Weinstein
1930 in Jena
Born (1897-01-21)21 January 1897
Saratov, Russia
Died 6 November 1979(1979-11-06) (aged 82)
Washington, D.C., USA
Nationality Russian American
Alma mater University of Zurich
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
Institutions University of Maryland, College Park
Doctoral advisors Rudolf Fueter
Hermann Weyl

Alexander Weinstein (21 January 1897 – 6 November 1979) was a mathematician who worked on boundary value problems in fluid dynamics.

Publications

  • with Nathan Aronszajn:
    • Aronszajn, N; Weinstein, A (1941). "Existence, convergence and equivalence in the unified theory of eigenvalues of plates and membranes". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 27 (3): 188–191. doi:10.1073/pnas.27.3.188. PMC 1078302. PMID 16588447.
    • Aronszajn, Nathan; Weinstein, Alexander (1942). "On the unified theory of eigenvalues of plates and membranes". Amer. J. Math. 64 (1): 623–645. doi:10.2307/2371709. JSTOR 2371709. MR 0007196.
  • Weinstein, Alexander (1948). "Discontinuous integrals and generalized potential theory". Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 63 (2): 342–354. doi:10.1090/s0002-9947-1948-0025023-x. MR 0025023.
  • Weinstein, Alexander (1953). "Generalized axially symmetric potential theory". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 59 (1): 20–38. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1953-09651-3. MR 0053289.

A selection of Alexander Weinstein's scientific contributions was edited by J. B. Díaz and published as:

  • Díaz, J. B., ed. (1978), Alexander Weinstein selecta (in English, German, and French), London–San Francisco–Melbourne: Pitman, pp. XXI+629, ISBN 0-273-08411-9, MR 0518819, Zbl 0383.01021

References

  • Díaz, J. B. (1973), "Dedication to Alexander Weinstein", Applicable Analysis, 3 (3): 205–208, doi:10.1080/00036817308839065, ISSN 0003-6811, MR 0384418, Zbl 0297.01028
  • Fichera, Gaetano (1981), "Alexander Weinstein", Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Rendiconti. Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali, Serie VIII (in Italian), 70 (5): 233–240, Zbl 0504.01031 .
  • O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Alexander Weinstein", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews .
  • Alexander Weinstein at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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