Axel Johannes Malmquist, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Axel Johannes Malmquist

Swedish mathematician

Date of Birth: 19-Oct-1882

Place of Birth: Askersund Municipality, Örebro County, Sweden

Date of Death: 24-Feb-1952

Profession: mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Axel Johannes Malmquist (19 October 1882, in Hammars parish, Örebro county – 24 February 1952, in Solna) was a Swedish mathematician working in the area of ordinary differential equations. He studied in the University of Stockholm in 1900-1907 and obtained PhD in Stockholm in 1909. He worked in the university of Stockholm in 1903-1913, and then became a professor in the Stockholm Institute of Technology. His most famous results are Malmquist theorems on first order algebraic differential equations, and discovery of Hamiltonian structure of Painleve equations.