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Tord Hjalmar Ganelius (born 23 May 1925 in Stockholm) is a Swedish mathematician and professor emeritus. He served as permanent secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and was member of the board of the Nobel Foundation in 1981-1989. [1] [2] His main areas of research was within holomorphic functions and approximation theory.[3]
Education and career
[edit]Ganelius completed his Ph.D. in 1953 at Stockholms Högskola (Stockholm University since 1960) by presenting his dissertation ‘‘Sequences of Analytic Functions and Their Zeros.[4]
He was an Associate Professor at Lund University 1953-1956 and he was 1957 appointed Professor of Mathematics at Gothenburg University where he served until 1981. He was Dean of the faculty of Science 1963-1965 and 1977-1980.[1] Ganelius was elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1972[5] and was appointed permanent secretary in 1981, a position he held until 1989[2]. Every year in Octobre he announced the Nobel Prize laureates in Physics, Chemistry and Economic Sciences (in memory of Alfred Nobel). Tord Ganelius was boardmember of the Nobel Foundation 1981-1989.[1]
Tord Ganelius has also been a visiting professor at the University of Washington in 1962, Cornell University, 1967-68 and University of California, San Diego 1972-1973.[1]
Ganelius published in 1966 the book ”Introduktion till matematiken” (Introduction to Mathematics) which since 2006 is availabe on-line[6] via e.g. the Swedish National Center for Mathematics Education.[7]
Family
[edit]Tord Ganelius is the son of Hjalmar and Ebba G. He married in 1951 with Aggie Hemberg born in 1928. [1] They have four children Per (1952), Truls (1955), Svante (1957) and Aggie Öhman (1963).[8]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e Hans Uddling Katrin Paabo, ed. (1993). Vem är det, svensk biografisk handbok (in Swedish). Nordstedts. p. 368. ISBN 91-1-914072-X. Retrieved 17 October 2012.
- ^ a b http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Swedish_Academy_of_Sciences
- ^ Nationalencyklopedin (in Swedish). Höganäs: Bokförlaget Bra böcker. 1992. p. 329. ISBN 91-7024-621-1.
- ^ Ganelius, Tord Hjalmar (1953). Sequences of analytic functions and their zeros (in Swedish). Stockholm, London & Paris.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|libris=ignored (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ [www.kva.se/en/contact/Kontakt-sida/?personId=75 "Memberpages Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences"]. Retrieved 17 October 2012.
{{cite web}}: Check|url=value (help) - ^ "Introduktion till matematiken". Retrieved 17 October 2012.
- ^ "National Center for Mathematics Education, NCM". Retrieved 17 October 2012.
- ^ Paul Harnesk, ed. (1965). Vem är vem (in Swedish). Stockholm: Bokförlaget Vem är vem AB. p. 379. Retrieved 17 October 2012.