{{Short description|Swedish mathematician (1907–1977)}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Otto A. Frostman | image = <!--(filename only, i.e. without "File:" prefix)--> | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date |1907|1|3|df=y}} | birth_place = Höör, Sweden | death_date = {{death date and age |1977|12|29 |1907|1|3|df=y}} | death_place = Djursholm, Sweden | fields = Mathematics | workplaces = | alma_mater = | thesis_title = <!--(or | thesis1_title = and | thesis2_title = )--> | thesis_url = <!--(or | thesis1_url = and | thesis2_url = )--> | thesis_year = <!--(or | thesis1_year = and | thesis2_year = )--> | doctoral_advisor = Marcel Riesz | doctoral_students = | known_for = Frostman lemma | awards = }}

'''Otto Albin Frostman''' (3 January 1907 &ndash; 29 December 1977) was a Swedish mathematician, known for his work in potential theory and complex analysis.

Frostman earned his Ph.D. in 1935 at Lund University under the Hungarian-born mathematician Marcel Riesz, the younger brother of Frigyes Riesz. In potential theory, Frostman's lemma is named after him.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Kjell-Ove Widman|title=Household names in Swedish mathematics|journal=EMS Newsletter|volume=52|year=2004}}</ref> He supervised the 1971 Stockholm University Ph.D. thesis of Bernt Lindström, which initiated the "Stockholm School" of topological combinatorics (combining simplicial homology and enumerative combinatorics).

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==External links== * {{MathGenealogy|id=34954}} * [http://www.icmihistory.unito.it/portrait/frostman.php ICMI webpage]

{{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Frostman, Otto}} Category:Mathematical analysts Category:Directors of the Mittag-Leffler Institute Category:1977 deaths Category:1907 births Category:20th-century Swedish mathematicians Category:Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Category:People from Höör Municipality

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