Tord Hall
Tord Hall (7 January 1910 - 30 September 1987) was a Swedish mathematician, university professor and bestselling author.
Life
He was born in 1910 in Jönköping, Sweden,[1] and died in 1987.[1]
Career
He completed his Ph.D. in mathematics from Uppsala University.[2] His PhD advisor was Arne Beurling.[2] The title of his PhD thesis was On Polynomials bounded at an Infinity of Points.
From 1959 to 1975, he was a professor of mathematics at Uppsala University.[1] He published several mathematical theorems.[3]
In addition to his academic career, he also worked as an employee for newspaper Svenska Dagbladet and Sveriges Radio, the national Swedish radio.
Bibliography
He is most well known as the biographer of Carl Gauss (Biography of Carl Gauss).[4][5] It was translated into English by Albert Froderberg.[6]
The book generally received favorable reviews.[7]
References
- ^ a b c "Tord Hall | Nationalencyklopedin". Ne.se. Retrieved 2014-01-06.
- ^ a b "The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Tord Hall". Genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu. Retrieved 2014-01-06.
- ^ Hayman, W. K. (March 1974). "On a theorem of Tord Hall". Duke Mathematical Journal. 41 (1): 25–26. doi:10.1215/S0012-7094-74-04103-9. Retrieved 2014-01-06.
- ^ Stephen G. Brush (1996-02-23). "A History of Modern Planetary Physics: Transmuted Past". Retrieved 2014-01-06.
- ^ Martin Gardiner. "Mathematical Puzzling". Retrieved 2014-01-06.
- ^ "Carl Friedrich Gauss, A Biography by Tord Hall. by (Hall, Tord.) from Richard Press Art Books | Sacramento, CA". Bibliopolis. Retrieved 2014-01-06.
- ^ Tord Hall. "Tord Hall (Author of Carl Friedrich Gauss)". Goodreads.com. Retrieved 2014-01-06.
External links
- "Tord Hall | The MIT Press". Mitpress2.mit.edu. Retrieved 2014-05-22.
- "Carl Friedrich Gauss : a biography / by Tord Hall; translated by Albert Froderberg. - Version details - Trove". Trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 2014-05-22.
- "426 (Vem är det : Svensk biografisk handbok / 1985)". Runeberg.org. Retrieved 2014-05-22.
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