Fritz Carlson

Fritz David Carlson (23 July 1888 – 28 November 1952) was a Swedish mathematician whose work on analytic functions and geometry left a lasting mark on twentieth-century mathematics. After the death of Torsten Carleman, he headed the Mittag-Leffler Institute.

Life and career

Born in Vimmerby on 23 July 1888, Fritz David Carlson completed his secondary schooling at Linköping in 1907 and went on to earn his doctorate at Uppsala University in 1914 with a thesis on a class of Taylor series whose coefficients vary analytically with the index. He was appointed professor of descriptive geometry at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm in 1920 and in 1928 took up the chair of higher analysis at the Stockholm College of Advanced Studies.