Sydney Goldstein

Sydney Goldstein ( born December 3, 1903 in Hull, † January 22, 1989 in Belmont ( Massachusetts)) was a British mathematician who worked on hydrodynamics.

Goldstein studied from 1921 Mathematics at the University of Leeds and then at Cambridge University where he won the 1927 Smith Prize and in 1928 Harold Jeffreys doctorate on Mathieu functions. After a year at the University of Göttingen ( founded by Ludwig Prandtl in the Institute for Fluid Dynamics ), he was a lecturer at Manchester University in 1929 ( and in the same year a Fellow of St. John 's College, Cambridge ), where previously the hydrodynamics Osborne Reynolds and until his retirement in 1920, Horace Lamb had. 1931 Goldstein was back in Cambridge, where he took over from Lamb, who died in 1934, the publication of Modern Developments in Fluid Dynamics ( 1938). During the Second World War he worked at the National Physical Laboratories. After the war he became a professor of Applied Mathematics in Manchester, but went in 1950 to the Technion in Haifa. Since he did not appeal the administrative work, he moved to Harvard University in 1955.

Goldstein was primarily concerned with the numerical solution of the boundary layer theory ( Prandtl ), aerodynamics and especially the resistance of rotating disks in liquids (1935 ). He was regarded as one of the UK's leading specialists in hydrodynamics.

In 1935 he was awarded the Adams Prize. In 1937 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences and the Finnish Science Society ( Suomen Tiedeseura ). 1946 to 1949 he was chairman of the Aeronautical Research Council. In 1954 he gave a plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Amsterdam ( On some methods of approximation in fluid mechanics ). In 1984 he received the G. I. Taylor Medal.

Writings

  • As editor: Modern Developments in fluid mechanics, Oxford, Clarendon Press 1938, Dover 1965
  • Lectures on Fluid Mechanics, Interscience, New York 1960
  • Views on the meaning of Zionism and of applied mathematics fifty years ago and now, Leeds University Press 1973
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