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Martin Wilhelm Kutta
Martin Wilhelm Kutta (November 3, 1867 - December 25, 1944) was a German mathematician.
Kutta was born in Pitschen , Upper Silesia (today Byczyna , Poland). He attended the university of Breslau from 1885 to 1890., and continued his studies in Munich until 1894, where he became the assistant of von Dyck. From 1898, he spent a year at the University of Cambridge. Kutta became professor in Stuttgart in 1911, where he stayed until his retirement in 1935.
In 1901, he had co-developed the Runge-Kutta method, used to solve ordinary differential equations. He is also remembered for the Zhukovsky-Kutta aerofoil .
Kutta died in Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany.
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