Tord Hall Explained
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]
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Tord Hall | Nationalencyklopedin . Ne.se . 2014-01-06.
- Web site: The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Tord Hall . Genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu . 2014-01-06.
- Hayman . W. K. . On a theorem of Tord Hall . Duke Mathematical Journal . March 1974 . 41 . 1 . 25–26 . 10.1215/S0012-7094-74-04103-9. 2014-01-06.
- Web site: [{{google books |plainurl=y |id=ysxT4lHzqtwC}} A History of Modern Planetary Physics: Transmuted Past ]. Stephen G. Brush . 1996-02-23 . 2014-01-06.
- Web site: [{{google books |plainurl=y |id=tdO5-P4nRl|p=38}} Mathematical Puzzling ]. Martin Gardiner. 2014-01-06.
- Web site: Carl Friedrich Gauss, A Biography by Tord Hall. by (Hall, Tord.) from Richard Press Art Books | Sacramento, CA . Bibliopolis . 2014-01-06.
- Web site: Tord Hall . Tord Hall (Author of Carl Friedrich Gauss) . Goodreads.com . 2014-01-06.
