Ralph Tambs-Lyche, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ralph Tambs-Lyche

Norwegian mathematician

Date of Birth: 06-Sep-1890

Place of Birth: Macon, Georgia, United States

Date of Death: 15-Jan-1991

Profession: mathematician

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Ralph Tambs-Lyche

  • Ralph Tambs-Lyche (6 September 1890 – 15 January 1991) was a Norwegian mathematician. He was born in Macon, Georgia as a son of Norwegian father Hans Tambs Lyche (1859–1898) and American mother Mary Rebecca Godden (1856–1938).
  • He moved to Norway at the age of two.
  • He finished his secondary education in Fredrikstad in 1908, and was hired as an assistant for Richard Birkeland at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1910.
  • At the same time he studied at the Royal Frederick University, graduating with the cand.real.
  • degree in 1916.He was hired as a docent in mathematics at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1918.
  • He took his doctorate in Strasbourg in 1927 following a two-year fellowship there.
  • In 1937 he was promoted to professor, a position he held until 1950.
  • He was then a professor at the University of Oslo until his retirement in 1961, then a visiting professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder from 1961 to 1962.
  • His fields were mathematical analysis, function theory, algebra and number theory.
  • He penned about 60 mathematical works, and also a few publications in botany; he was a hobby herbarist.
  • He also became widely known for his mathematical textbooks, both for the upper secondary school (Matematikk for den høgre skolen) and another for technical colleges and universities (Lærebok i matematisk analyse).
  • He was an editorial board member of the journal Nordisk Matematisk Tidsskrift from 1954 to 1960. He was a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters from 1927, and of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1929.
  • From 1946 to 1950 he was the secretary-general of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, and he chaired the Norwegian Mathematical Society from 1953 to 1959 and the Norwegian Botanical Society from 1957 to 1959.
  • He chaired the Student Society in Trondheim in 1920, and later held speeches during political meetings there.
  • He was a member of ClartĂ©, affiliated with Mot Dag.
  • He denounced communism after the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939.
  • During the martial law in Trondheim in 1942, organized by the occupying Nazi authorities, he was imprisoned at Falstad concentration camp.
  • He was one of the first prisoners there; he had the prisoner number 53.
  • He avoided execution unlike some others who were arrested during martial law, but he remained imprisoned from 9 March 1942 to 3 August 1943.Ralph Tambs-Lyche was the father of solidarity activist Guri Tambs-Lyche.
  • His wife Elsa was a pioneer in maternal hygiene work.
  • He died in January 1991, at the age of 100.

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