Leon Lichtenstein

Leon Lichtenstein
Born(1878-05-16)16 May 1878
Died21 August 1933(1933-08-21) (aged 55)
NationalityPolish
Alma materUniversity of Berlin
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Leipzig
Doctoral advisorHermann Schwarz
Friedrich Schottky
Doctoral studentsHermann Boerner
Ernst Hölder
Erich Kähler
Aurel Wintner

Leon Lichtenstein (16 May 1878 – 21 August 1933) was a Polish-German mathematician, who made contributions to the areas of differential equations, conformal mapping, and potential theory. He was also interested in theoretical physics, publishing research in hydrodynamics and astronomy.