Goran Borg
Göran Borg (born November 19, 1913 , † January 6, 1997 ) was a Swedish mathematician . He was a professor at the Royal Technical University of Stockholm (KTH).
Borg received his doctorate in 1945 under Arne Beurling at the University of Uppsala ( A reversal of the Sturm-Liouville eigenvalue problem : Determining the differential equation by its eigenvalues , Acta Mathematica, Volume 78, 1946, pp. 1-96). From 1953 until his retirement in 1976 he was professor of mathematics at the KTH. From 1958 to 1963 he was dean for technical physics and from 1967/68 prefect of the mathematical institutes. From 1968 to 1974 he was rector of the KTH.
In 1962 he became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering.
He mainly dealt with differential equations. He drew attention to himself with his dissertation on an inverse problem in the theory of differential equations. With Lars-Erik Zachrisson and Germund Dahlquist, he played a key role in founding an institute for applied mathematics at the KTH and in the foundation of professorships for systems theory and optimization. He was also involved in founding Linköping University.
The audiologist Erik Borg (* 1943), professor at the Karolinska Institute, was his son.
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| SURNAME | Borg, Goran |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 19, 1913 |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 6, 1997 |