Sven Erlander | |
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Born | Halmstad, Sweden | 25 May 1934
Died | 13 June 2021 Linköping, Sweden | (aged 87)
Nationality | Swedish |
Occupation(s) | Professor of mathematics, Rector of Linköping University |
Academic background | |
Doctoral advisor | Ulf Grenander |
Sven Bertil Erlander (25 May 1934 – 13 June 2021)[1][2] was a Swedish mathematician and academic.
Erlander was the son of Tage Erlander, who was the Prime Minister of Sweden from 1946 to 1969. He published several of his father's diaries.[3]
He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Stockholm University in 1968. In 1971 he became a professor in Optimisation at Linköping University. In Linköping he was department head of the Mathematics department from 1973–1976, and dean of the Institute of Technology between 1978 and 1983.