Axel Johannes Malmquist
Swedish mathematician
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| Intro | Swedish mathematician | |||
| Places | Sweden | |||
| was | Mathematician Professor Educator | |||
| Work field | Academia Mathematics | |||
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| Birth | 19 October 1882, Askersund Municipality, Sweden | |||
| Death | 24 February 1952Solna Municipality, Sweden (aged 69 years) | |||
| Star sign | Libra | |||
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Axel Johannes Malmquist (19 October 1882, in Hammars parish, Örebro county – 24 February 1952, in Solna) was a Swedish mathematician working in the area of ordinary differential equations.
He studied in the University of Stockholm in 1900-1907 and obtained PhD in Stockholm in 1909. He worked in the university of Stockholm in 1903-1913, and then became a professor in the Stockholm Institute of Technology.
His most famous results are Malmquist theorems on first order algebraic differential equations, and discovery of Hamiltonian structure of Painleve equations.