Leif O. Arkeryd (born 24 August 1940) is professor emeritus of

mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...

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. He is a specialist on the theory of the

Boltzmann equation The Boltzmann equation or Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) describes the statistical behaviour of a thermodynamic system not in a state of equilibrium; it was devised by Ludwig Boltzmann in 1872.Encyclopaedia of Physics (2nd Edition), R. G ...

. Arkeryd earned his doctorate from

Lund University Lund University () is a Public university, public research university in Sweden and one of Northern Europe's oldest universities. The university is located in the city of Lund in the Swedish province of Scania. The university was officially foun ...

in 1966, under the supervision of Jaak Peetre.

Selected publications

*Arkeryd, Leif: On the Boltzmann equation. I. Existence. Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 45 (1972), 1–16. *

Nonstandard analysis The history of calculus is fraught with philosophical debates about the meaning and logical validity of fluxions or infinitesimal numbers. The standard way to resolve these debates is to define the operations of calculus using (ε, δ)-definitio ...

. Theory and applications. Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Nonstandard Analysis and its Applications held in Edinburgh, June 30–July 13, 1996. Edited by Leif O. Arkeryd, Nigel J. Cutland and C. Ward Henson. NATO Advanced Science Institutes Series C: Mathematical and Physical Sciences, 493. Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, Dordrecht, 1997.

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Swedish mathematicians Living people Lund University alumni Academic staff of the Chalmers University of Technology 1940 births {{Europe-mathematician-stub

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