Abstract
Leon Lichtenstein was professor of mathematics in Leipzig from 1922 until he died in 1933. J. Schauder and E. Kähler were among his students [1]. In 1933, he published a monograph [2] with the title “Gleichgewichtsfiguren rotierender Flüssigkeiten” — “Equilibrium figures of rotating fluids” — in which were collected all the work he had done on this topic between 1918 and 1933. His contributions to the theory of rotating fluids have been forgotten almost completely. The purpose of this paper is to bring Lichtenstein back to the stage and show that his work still influences today’s research.
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Schmidt, B. (1999). Leon Lichtenstein’s Work on Rotating Fluids. In: Harvey, A. (eds) On Einstein’s Path. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1422-9_29
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