Gabriel Kron, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gabriel Kron

engineer, mathematician and former member of the General Engineering Staff at General Electric

Date of Birth: 01-Dec-1901

Place of Birth: Baia Mare, Maramureș County, Romania

Date of Death: 25-Oct-1968

Profession: engineer

Nationality: Hungary, United States, Romania

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Gabriel Kron (1901 – 1968) was a Hungarian American electrical engineer who promoted the use of methods of linear algebra, multilinear algebra, and differential geometry in the field.
His method of system decomposition and solution called Diakoptics is still influential today.
Though he published widely, his methods were slow to be assimilated.
At Union College a symposium was organized by Schaffer Library on "Gabriel Kron, the Man and His Work", held October 14, 1969.
H.H.
Happ edited the contributed papers, which were published by Union College Press as Gabriel Kron and Systems Theory.