Christer Kiselman's mathematical
ancestors
I defended my Ph.D. thesis at Stockholm University on December 3,
1966. My advisor there during the years 1961–1964 was
Lars Hörmander
I attended his lectures on partial differential equations in the fall
of 1961 and the spring of 1962, and then his lectures on analytic
functions of several complex variables in the fall of 1962 and the
spring of 1963. Hörmander is now Professor Emeritus at Lund
University. He defended his Ph.D. thesis at Lund University in 1955.
His advisor was
He was professor at Lund University and got his Ph.D. in 1912 at the
University of Budapest with
as advisor. Fejér got his Ph.D. at the University of Budapest in
1902. His advisor was
Schwarz received his Ph.D. in 1864. His advisor was
Schwarz attended Weierstrass's lectures on Integral Calculus in 1861.
Weierstrass was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of
Königsberg in 1854, so we cannot say he had a Ph.D. advisor. However,
he studied mathematics for Gudermann in 1838–1840. In a more recent
version of the Mathematics Genealogy
Project, Gudermann is considered to be the advisor of Weierstrass,
which makes it possible to go back to Gauss and Pfaff and even
further...
Acknowledgment: This information is partly based on the
Mathematics Genealogy Project of Harry B. Coonce. Thank you!
invited me to join him in Nice during the academic year 1967-68. He
influenced me a lot. I have tried to sum up my memories on him and our year together in a note
(in French).
Christer Kiselman, 2003-07-01. To Kiselman's
home page. E-mail address: kiselman@math.uu.se