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Oct 01, 1894 Laiuse, Jõgeva County, Estonia Died on 06 Mar 1961 (aged 66)
Estonian mathematician
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About Edgar Krahn
- Edgar Krahn (1 October [O.S.
- 19 September] 1894 in Laiuse Parish – 6 March 1961) was an Estonian mathematician.Krahn was born in Sootaga (now Laiuse, Jõgeva County), Governorate of Livonia, as a member of the Baltic German minority.
- He died in Rockville, Maryland, US. Krahn studied at the University of Tartu and the University of Göttingen. He graduated at Tartu in 1918, received his doctoral degree at Göttingen in 1926, with Richard Courant as his advisor, and his habilitation took place at Tartu in 1928. He is co-author of the Rayleigh–Faber–Krahn inequality.Krahn worked in Estonia, Germany, the UK, and the US in the following areas of pure and applied mathematics: Differential geometry Differential equations Bausparmathematik, which is distantly related to insurance mathematics Probability theory Gas dynamics Elasticity theory
