Background
Golomb, Michael was born on May 3, 1909 in Munich, Germany. Came to the United States, 1939. United States citizen 1945.
Son of Moritz Isaac and Marie (Margulies) Golomb.
Golomb, Michael was born on May 3, 1909 in Munich, Germany. Came to the United States, 1939. United States citizen 1945.
Son of Moritz Isaac and Marie (Margulies) Golomb.
Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics, University Berlin, 1933.
He was a student of Erhard Schmidt and Adolf Hammerstein, and received his doctorate from the University of Berlin in 1933. However, as a Jew, he had to leave Germany shortly afterwards to avoid Nazi persecution. After a short period in Zagreb in the former Yugoslavia, Michael Golomb arrived in the United States. in 1939, when he turned to applied mathematics.
He was one of the first mathematicians to apply normed vector spaces in numerical analysis.
He taught mathematics at Purdue University from 1942 until his retirement in 1975, at times holding joint appointment with the Schools of Engineering. He continued to teach as Professor Emeritus.
In 1998 in Berlin, Michael Golomb was honored as part of a special exhibition entitled "Terror and Exile: Persecuted and expelled Berlin mathematicians in the time of the Nazi regime." The exhibition was organized by the city of Berlin to coincide with the International Congress of Mathematicians there.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Mathematics Society (member of national county 1973-1975), Mathematics Association American, Society Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Married Dagmar Racic, February 19, 1939 (deceased 2004). Children: Miriam, Deborah Sedgwick.