Erik Albert Holmgren
Swedish mathematician
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| Intro | Swedish mathematician | ||||
| Places | Sweden | ||||
| was | Mathematician | ||||
| Work field | Mathematics | ||||
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| Birth | 7 July 1872, Adolf Fredriks parish, Sweden | ||||
| Death | 18 March 1943Uppsala Cathedral Assembly, Sweden (aged 70 years) | ||||
| Star sign | Cancer | ||||
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Erik Albert Holmgren (7 July 1872 – 18 March 1943) was a Swedish mathematician known for contributions to partial differential equations. Holmgren's uniqueness theorem is named after him. Torsten Carleman was one of his students. His father was the mathematician Hjalmar Holmgren (1822 – 1885).