Hille

Einar Carl Hille

Born: 28 June 1894 in New York, USA
Died: 12 Feb 1980

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Hille received a Ph.D. from Stockholm in 1918 where he worked with Marcel Riesz and Mittag-Leffler. He obtained a fellowship to work with Birkhoff in Harvard. Then, in 1920, he went to Princeton where he became a professor some years later.

Hille's main work was on differential equations, Dirichlet series and Fourier series. He is well known as an author of a 2 volume calculus text.

References:

  1. N Dumford, Einar Hille (June 28 1894-February 12 1980), Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 4 (1981), 303-319.
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