Tord Hjalmar Ganelius (born 23 May 1925 in

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, dead 14 March 2016 in Stockholm) was a

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and

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. He served as Permanent Secretary of the

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and was a board member of the

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from 1981 to 1989.

His primary research interests were

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and

approximation theory In mathematics, approximation theory is concerned with how function (mathematics), functions can best be approximation, approximated with simpler functions, and with quantitative property, quantitatively characterization (mathematics), characteri ...

Education and career

Ganelius completed his

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in 1953 at Stockholms Högskola (known as

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since 1960) by presenting his dissertation ''Sequences of Analytic Functions and Their Zeros''. He was an

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in 1953–56 and in 1957 he was appointed Professor of Mathematics at

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, where he served until 1981. During this time he was Dean of the Faculty of Science twice, in 1963–65 and 1977–80. In 1972, he was elected a member of the

and he was appointed the permanent secretary in 1981, a position he held until 1989. He was a board member of the

from 1981 to 1989, and every October he announced the

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in Physics, Chemistry and Economic Sciences. Tord Ganelius has also been a

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at the

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in 1962,

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in 1967–68 and the

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in 1972–73. In 1966, Ganelius published the Swedish-language mathematics textbook ”Introduktion till matematiken”, which since 2006 has been available on-line.

Family

Tord Ganelius is the son of Hjalmar and Ebba G. In 1951 he married Aggie Hemberg (born 1928). They have four children: Per (1952), Truls (1955), Svante (1957) and Aggie Öhman (1963).

References

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