Thomas Hakon Grönwall or Thomas Hakon Gronwall (born Hakon Tomi Grönwall;
January 16, 1877 in Dylta bruk,
Sweden
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– May 9, 1932 in
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) was a
Swedish mathematician. He studied at the
University College of Stockholm and
Uppsala University
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Initially fou ...
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
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and from 1925 he was a member of the physics department at
Columbia University
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.
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. . 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. He developed an analytical solution to the
Poisson-Boltzmann equation as it appears in the
Debye–Hückel theory
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It is a linearized Poisson–Boltzmann model, which assumes an extremel ...
See also
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Grönwall's area theorem
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Grönwall's inequality
In mathematics, Grönwall's inequality (also called Grönwall's lemma or the Grönwall–Bellman inequality) allows one to bound a function that is known to satisfy a certain differential or integral inequality by the solution of the correspondin ...
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Grönwall's theorem
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1877 births
1932 deaths
Uppsala University alumni
Stockholm University alumni
20th-century Swedish mathematicians
Columbia University faculty
Swedish emigrants to the United States
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