Mathematician:Mathematicians/Sorted By Nation/Sweden
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- The army of those who have made at least one definite contribution to mathematics as we know it soon becomes a mob as we look back over history; 6,000 or 8,000 names press forward for some word from us to preserve them from oblivion, and once the bolder leaders have been recognised it becomes largely a matter of arbitrary, illogical legislation to judge who of the clamouring multitude shall be permitted to survive and who be condemned to be forgotten.'
- -- Eric Temple Bell: Men of Mathematics, 1937, Victor Gollancz, London
Contents
- 1 Sweden
- 1.1 Anders Celsius (1701 – 1744)
- 1.2 Magnus Gustaf Mittag-Leffler (1846 – 1927)
- 1.3 Ivar Otto Bendixson (1861 – 1935)
- 1.4 Lars Edvard Phragmén (1863 – 1937)
- 1.5 Torsten Carleman (1892 – 1949)
- 1.6 Arne E. Broman (1913 – 1995)
- 1.7 Carl-Erik Fröberg (1918 – 2007)
- 1.8 Hans Ivar Riesel (1929 – 2014)
- 1.9 Anders Vretblad (b. 1943 )
- 1.10 Per H. Enflo (b. 1944 )
Sweden
Anders Celsius (1701 – 1744)
Swedish astronomer, physicist and mathematician whose best known contribution to science was his $1742$ proposal of what is now known as the Celsius temperature scale.
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Magnus Gustaf Mittag-Leffler (1846 – 1927)
Swedish mathematician whose mathematical contributions are connected chiefly with the theory of functions.
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Ivar Otto Bendixson (1861 – 1935)
Swedish mathematician who worked mainly in the fields of set theory, analysis and differential equations.
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Lars Edvard Phragmén (1863 – 1937)
Contributed towards the field of complex function theory.
Also contributed towards the field of insurance mathematics.
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Torsten Carleman (1892 – 1949)
Tage Gills Torsten Carleman was a Swedish mathematician whose main work was in analysis and applied mathematics.
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Arne E. Broman (1913 – 1995)
Swedish mathematician who primarily contributed to analysis.
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Carl-Erik Fröberg (1918 – 2007)
Swedish computer scientist and physicist.
One of the pioneers in the field of numerical analysis.
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Hans Ivar Riesel (1929 – 2014)
Swedish mathematician who found the $18$th Mersenne prime $2^{3217} - 1$ in $1957$.
He held the record for the highest known prime from $1957$ to $1961$, when Alexander Hurwitz found the next two.
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Anders Vretblad (b. 1943 )
Swedish mathematician known as the writer of the books Algebra och Kombinatorik and Fourier Analysis and its Applications.
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Per H. Enflo (b. 1944 )
Swedish mathematician who has solved fundamental problems in functional analysis.
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