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Thomas Hakon Grönwall

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Thomas Hakon Grönwall or Thomas Hakon Gronwall (born Hakon Tomi Grönwall;[1] January 16, 1877 in Dylta bruk, Sweden – May 9, 1932 in New York City, New York) was a Swedish mathematician. He studied at the University College of Stockholm and Uppsala University and completed his Ph.D. at Uppsala in 1898. Grönwall worked for about a year as a civil engineer in Germany before he emigrated to the United States in 1904. He later taught mathematics at Princeton University and from 1925 he was a member of the physics department at Columbia University.[1][2]


Thomas Hakon Grönwall
Born(1877-01-16)16 January 1877
Died9 May 1932(1932-05-09) (aged 55)
Known forGrönwall's inequality
Grönwall's area theorem
Grönwall's theorem (divisor function)
Parent(s)Carl Theodor Grönwall(father)
Laura Elisabeth Billqvist(mother)[2]

In 1925 he started to collaborate with Victor LaMer, which led to his joining the Department of Physics at Columbia University as an associate in 1927[citation needed]. This connection was a great opportunity[according to whom?]. There were no teaching obligations; he had complete control of his own time and an abundance of new intriguing problems to address in physical chemistry and in atomic physics[citation needed]. He developed an analytical solution to the Poisson-Boltzmann equation as it appears in the Debye–Hückel theory[1]

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  1. ^ a b c Hille, Einar (1932). "Thomas Hakon Gronwall—In memoriam". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (11): 775–786. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1932-05492-1. MR 1562506.
  2. ^ a b O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Thomas Hakon Grönwall", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
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