ProofWiki:Mathematicians/Sorted By Nation/Sweden

For more comprehensive information on the lives and works of mathematicians through the ages, see the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, created by John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson.

"The army of those who have made at least one definite contribution to mathematics as we know it soon becomes a mob as we look back over history; 6,000 or 8,000 names press forward for some word from us to preserve them from oblivion, and once the bolder leaders have been recognised it becomes largely a matter of arbitrary, illogical legislation to judge who of the clamouring multitude shall be permitted to survive and who be condemned to be forgotten."

Sweden

Lars Edvard Phragmén

1863 – 1937

Contributed towards the field of complex function theory.

Also contributed towards the field of insurance mathematics.
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Torsten Carleman

1892 – 1949

Tage Gills Torsten Carleman was a Swedish mathematician whose main work was in analysis and applied mathematics.
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Hans Ivar Riesel

b. 1929

Swedish mathematician who found the 18th Mersenne prime $2^{3217} - 1$ in 1957.

He held the record for the highest known prime from 1957 to 1961, when Alexander Hurwitz found the next two.
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