Died 1953-07-14.
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Richard von Mises
Richard Martin Edler von Mises was an Austrian scientist and mathematician who worked on solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, aeronautics, statistics and probability theory. He held the position of Gordon McKay Professor of Aerodynamics and Applied Mathematics at Harvard University. He described his work in his own words shortly before his death as, "practical analysis, integral and dif…
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science · Austrian physicist and mathematician (1883–1953) · mathematician · physicist · engineer · university teacher · philosopher · also Richard von Mises, Richard Edler von Mises, R. V. Mises, R. von Mises, Mises
Born 19 April 1883 · Died 14 July 1953 · Q84292
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1953· 1 entry
1950· 1 entry
Von Mises declined honorary membership from the Communist-dominated East German Academy of Science
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1943· 1 entry
Married Hilda Geiringer, a mathematician who had been his assistant at the Institute and moved with him to Turkey and then to the U
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1941· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1941).
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1939· 1 entry
Accepted a position in the United States, where in 1944 he was appointed as Gordon McKay Professor of Aerodynamics and Applied Mathematics at Harvard University
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1933· 1 entry
Mises felt his position threatened, despite his First World War military service
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1921· 1 entry
Founded the journal Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik and became its editor
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1919· 1 entry
Was appointed director and full professor at the new Institute of Applied Mathematics created at the behest of Erhard Schmidt at the University of Berlin
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1915· 1 entry
Supervised the construction of a 600-horsepower (450 kW) aircraft – the "Mises-Flugzeug" (Mises aircraft) for the Austrian army
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1913· 1 entry
At Strasbourg he gave the first university course on powered flight
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1909· 1 entry
At 26, he was appointed professor of applied mathematics in Strasbourg (then part of the German Empire) and received Prussian citizenship
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1908· 1 entry
Von Mises was awarded a doctorate from Vienna (his dissertation was on "the determination of flywheel masses in crank drives") and he received his habilitation from Brünn (Brno) (on "Theory of the Waterwheels") to lectur
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1907· 1 entry
Studied at TU Wien (1907).
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1905· 1 entry
Still a student, he published an article on the geometry of curves called "Zur konstruktiven Infinitesimalgeometrie der ebenen Kurven," in the prestigious Zeitschrift für Mathematik und Physik
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1883· 1 entry
Born 1883-04-19.
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