Richard Birkeland
Richard Birkeland (born June 6, 1879 in Farsund , Norway, † April 10, 1928 in Oslo ) was a Norwegian mathematician.
Life
Birkeland attended the Technical School in Oslo (then Christiania), where he was taught mathematics by Elling Holst (1849-1915). After graduating ( Magister Artium ) in 1901 he went to Paris , where he studied with Édouard Goursat , Henri Poincaré and Émile Picard , and in Göttingen , where he studied with David Hilbert and Felix Klein . From 1903 to 1908 he worked at the state computer center. In 1910 he became professor of mathematics at the newly founded Norwegian Technical University (NTH) in Trondheim . He also taught at his old technical school in Oslo for a year. From 1916 to 1917 he was deputy rector and from 1920 to 1923 rector of the NTH. From 1923 he was a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Oslo .
He dealt in particular with algebraic equations, which he solved with hypergeometric functions , and differential equations.
In 1918 he was a founding member of the Norwegian Mathematical Society .
Kristian Birkeland was his cousin and Øivind Birkeland was his daughter. He received the Saint Olav Order and the Fritjof Nansen Prize for outstanding research.
In 1973 a street on the university campus in Trondheim was named after him.
Web links
- Biography about Richard Birkeland on nbl.snl.no in Norsk biografisk leksikon (Norwegian)
- Richard Birkeland on snl.no in the store norske leksikon (Norwegian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Birkeland on the resolution of algebraic equations through hypergeometric functions , Mathematische Zeitschrift, Volume 26, 1927, p. 566
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Birkeland, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 6, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Farsund , Norway |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 10, 1928 |
| Place of death | Oslo |