Mathematician:Martin Wilhelm Kutta
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Mathematician
German mathematician best known for co-developing (with Carl David Tolmé Runge) of the Runge-Kutta Methods in the field of numerical analysis.
Also known for the Zhukovsky-Kutta Aerofoil.
Nationality
Germany
History
- Born: 3 November 1867 in Pitschen, Upper Silesia (now Byczyna, Poland)
- Died: 25 December 1944 in Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany
Theorems and Definitions
- Runge-Kutta Methods (with Carl David Tolmé Runge), including:
- Zhukovsky-Kutta Aerofoil (with Nikolay Yegorovich Zhukovsky)
- Kutta-Zhukovsky Theorem (with Nikolay Yegorovich Zhukovsky)
- Kutta Condition
Results named for Martin Wilhelm Kutta can be found here.
Definitions of concepts named for Martin Wilhelm Kutta can be found here.
Publications
- 1900: Beiträge zur näherungsweisen Integration totaler Differentialgleichungen
- 1910: Über ebene Zirkulationsströmungen nebst flugtechnischen Anwendungen
Sources
- John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Martin Wilhelm Kutta": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- 1972: George F. Simmons: Differential Equations ... (previous) ... (next): Miscellaneous Problems for Chapter $2$: Appendix $\text{A}$. Numerical Methods: Footnote