Kutta

Martin Wilhelm Kutta


Born: 3 Nov 1867 in Pitschen, Upper Silesia (now Byczyna, Poland)
Died: 25 Dec 1944 in Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany



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Martin Kutta studied at Breslau from 1885 to 1890. Then he went to Munich where he studied from 1891 to 1894, later becoming an assistant to von Dyck at Munich. During this period he spent the year 1898-99 in England at the University of Cambridge.

Kutta held posts at Munich, Jena and Aachen. He became professor at Stuttgart in 1911 and remained there until he retired in 1935.

He is best known for the Runge-Kutta method (1901) for solving ordinary differential equations and for the Zhukovsky- Kutta aerofoil. Runge presented Kutta's methods.

Texto original por: J J O'Connor and E F Robertson

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