Thomas Hakon Grönwall
Thomas Hakon Grönwall , also Gronwall (in the USA), Grönvall , (born January 16, 1877 in Dylta Bruk near Axberg / Örebro municipality , † May 9, 1932 in New York , NY ) was a Swedish mathematician. The grönwallsche inequality is named after him. He worked mainly in the fields of physics and physical chemistry and dealt with classical analysis.
Grönwall's parents were Carl Theodor Grönwall and Laura Elisabeth Billqvist. He first studied in Uppsala from 1893 and then went to Stockholm after a year . In 1898, when he was only 21 years old, he did his doctorate in Uppsala. The topic of his doctoral thesis was On systems of linear total differential equations particularly with -periodic coefficients . Later he spent a short time in Germany, where he graduated as a graduate engineer from the University of Berlin-Charlottenburg in 1902 , worked as a civil engineer and emigrated to the USA in 1904 , where he also worked as an engineer until 1912. From 1912 he worked again in the field of mathematics and taught among other things in Princeton and at Columbia University in New York, where he worked as a consulting mathematician.
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Thomas Hakon Grönwall. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
- Obituary by Einar Hille, Bulletin AMS 1932
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| SURNAME | Grönwall, Thomas Hakon |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gronwall, Thomas Hakon; Grönvall, Thomas Hakon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 16, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dylta Bruk near Axberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 9, 1932 |
| Place of death | New York , NY |