Sven Bertil Erlander (25 May 1934 – 13 June 2021) was a Swedish mathematician and academic.

Biography

Erlander was the son of

Tage Erlander Tage Fritjof Erlander (; 13 June 1901 – 21 June 1985) was a Swedish politician who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1946 to 1969. He was the leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party and led the government for an uninterrupted tenur ...

, who was the

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of Sweden from 1946 to 1969. He published several of his father's diaries.Article in Norrköpings Tidningar
(in Swedish) He received his

Ph.D. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields. Because it is a ...

in mathematics from

Stockholm University Stockholm University ( sv, Stockholms universitet) is a public research university in Stockholm, Sweden, founded as a college in 1878, with university status since 1960. With over 33,000 students at four different faculties: law, humanities, so ...

in 1968. In 1971 he became a professor in

Optimisation Mathematical optimization (alternatively spelled ''optimisation'') or mathematical programming is the selection of a best element, with regard to some criterion, from some set of available alternatives. It is generally divided into two subfi ...

at Linköping University. In Linköping he was

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of the Mathematics department from 1973–1976, and dean of the Institute of Technology between 1978 and 1983. In 1983–1995 he was the rector of Linköping University.CV at Linköping University

Awards

* Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, 1983 *

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Gdańsk University Gdańsk ( , also ; ; csb, Gduńsk;Stefan Ramułt, ''Słownik języka pomorskiego, czyli kaszubskiego'', Kraków 1893, Gdańsk 2003, ISBN 83-87408-64-6. , Johann Georg Theodor Grässe, ''Orbis latinus oder Verzeichniss der lateinischen Benen ...

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Publications

* ''Cost-Minimizing Choice Behavior in Transportation Planning'', monograph,

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, 2010.

References

External links

Prof. Sven Erlander's CV
* 1934 births 2021 deaths Swedish mathematicians Stockholm University alumni Academic staff of Linköping University Children of prime ministers of Sweden Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences People from Halmstad {{Sweden-scientist-stub