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Mises, Richard vonMises, Richard von, b. Lemberg (now Lvív, Ukraine), April 19, 1883, d. Boston (USA), July 14, 1953, mathematician, brother of Ludwig von Mises. Taught at the universities of Strasbourg, Dresden, Berlin and Istanbul and from 1939 at Harvard University; focused in particular on fluid mechanics, especially as applied to aircraft construction; founded the journal "Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik". Works: Theorie der Wasserräder, 1909; Fluglehre, 1918; Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung und ihre Anwendungen in der Statistik und theoretischen Physik, 1931. Literature: Zentralbibliothek für Physik in Wien (ed.), Österreichische Mathematik und Physik, 1993; Neue Deutsche Biographie.
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