Tord Hall (7 January 1910 - 30 September 1987) was a

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, university professor and bestselling author.

Life

He was born in 1910 in

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, Sweden, and died in 1987.

Career

He completed his Ph.D. in mathematics from

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. His PhD advisor was

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. The title of his PhD thesis was ''On Polynomials bounded at an Infinity of Points''. From 1959 to 1975, he was a professor of mathematics at Uppsala University. He published several mathematical theorems. In addition to his academic career, he also worked as an employee for newspaper

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and

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, the national Swedish radio.

Bibliography

He is most well known as the biographer of

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(''Biography of Carl Gauss''). It was translated into English by Albert Froderberg. The book generally received favorable reviews.

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