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Theodore von Kármán

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A Panorama of Hungarian Mathematics in the Twentieth Century I

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Theodore von Karman (szöllőskislaki Kármán Tódor) was born in Budapest in 1881 and died in Aachen in 1963. In 1902 he received his undergraduate degree in Engineering from the Royal Joseph University of Polytechnics and Economics in Budapest. In 1908, under the direction of the eminent fluiddynamicist Ludwig Prandtl, he received his doctorate from the University of Göttingen for his work on the buckling of columns. He served there as a Privatdozent under Prandtl until 1913, when he became Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanics at the Technical University of Aachen. In 1929 he left for the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, where he spent the rest of his life.

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Antman, S.S. (2006). Theodore von Kármán. In: Horváth, J. (eds) A Panorama of Hungarian Mathematics in the Twentieth Century I. Bolyai Society Mathematical Studies, vol 14. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30721-1_11

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