Emanuel Gabriel Björling (2 December 1808 – 3 November 1872) was a Swedish

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. He was the father of mathematician

Carl Fabian Björling Carl Fabian Emanuel Björling (30 November 1839 – 6 May 1910) was a Swedish mathematician and meteorologist. Life He was born on 30 November 1839 in Västerås, Sweden, and died on 6 May 1910. He was the son of mathematician Emanuel Björling ...

Career

In 1836, he became the associate professor of

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at the

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. He was a lecturer and later a rector at

Västerås Västerås ( , , ) is a city in central Sweden on the shore of Lake Mälaren in the province of Västmanland, west of Stockholm. The city had a population of 127,799 at the end of 2019, out of the municipal total of 154,049. Västerås is the se ...

grammar school. He is most well known for the Björling problem. In 1850, he became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

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1808 births 1872 deaths 19th-century Swedish mathematicians Uppsala University alumni Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences {{Sweden-mathematician-stub