Hans Frederick Blichfeldt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hans Frederick Blichfeldt

mathematician

Date of Birth: 09-Jan-1873

Place of Birth: Grønbæk, Central Denmark Region, Denmark

Date of Death: 16-Nov-1945

Profession: mathematician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Hans Frederick Blichfeldt (9 January 1873 in Illar, Denmark – 16 November 1945 in Palo Alto, California) was a Danish and American mathematician who worked on group theory and the geometry of numbers.
He introduced Blichfeldt's principle and Blichfeldt's upper bound on the density of sphere packings.
He graduated from Stanford University in 1896 and got his Ph.D.
from Leipzig University in 1898.
He returned to Stanford and remained there until his death.
He was executive head of the Mathematics Department from 1927 until 1938.