Thomas Hakon Grönwall or Thomas Hakon Gronwall (January 16, 1877, Dylta bruk, Sweden - May 9, 1932, New York

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, USA) was a Swedish mathematician. He studied at the University College of Stockholm and Uppsala University

Uppsala University

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 and completed his Ph.D. at Uppsala in 1898. Grönwall worked for about a year as a civil engineer in Germany before he immigrated to the United States in 1904. He later taught at Princeton University

Princeton University

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 and Columbia University

Columbia University

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.

See also

• Grönwall's inequality
  Grönwall's inequality
  In mathematics, Gronwall's lemma or Grönwall's lemma, also called Gronwall–Bellman inequality, allows one to bound a function that is known to satisfy a certain differential or integral inequality by the solution of the corresponding differential or integral equation. There are two forms of the...
  
  
• Grönwall's theorem

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