# Tord Hall

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**Tord Hall** (7 January 1910 - 30 September 1987) was a [Swedish](/source/Sweden) [mathematician](/source/Mathematician), university professor and bestselling author.

## Life

He was born in 1910 in [Jönköping](/source/J%C3%B6nk%C3%B6ping), Sweden,[1] and died in 1987.[1]

## Career

He completed his Ph.D. in mathematics from [Uppsala University](/source/Uppsala_University).[2] His PhD advisor was [Arne Beurling](/source/Arne_Beurling).[2] The title of his PhD thesis was *On Polynomials bounded at an Infinity of Points*.

From 1959 to 1975, he was a professor of mathematics at Uppsala University.[1] He published several mathematical theorems.[3]

In addition to his academic career, he also worked as an employee for newspaper [Svenska Dagbladet](/source/Svenska_Dagbladet) and [Sveriges Radio](/source/Sveriges_Radio), the national Swedish radio.

## Bibliography

He is most well known as the biographer of [Carl Gauss](/source/Carl_Gauss) (*Biography of Carl Gauss*).[4][5] It was translated into English by [Albert Froderberg](/source/Albert_Froderberg).[6]

The book generally received favorable reviews.[7]

## References

1. ["Tord Hall | Nationalencyklopedin"](http://www.ne.se/tord-hall). Ne.se. Retrieved 2014-01-06.

1. ["The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Tord Hall"](http://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=20037). Genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu. Retrieved 2014-01-06.

1. Hayman, W. K. (March 1974). ["On a theorem of Tord Hall"](http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS?service=UI&version=1.0&verb=Display&handle=euclid.dmj/1077310221). *Duke Mathematical Journal*. **41** (1): 25–26. [doi:10.1215/S0012-7094-74-04103-9](https://doi.org/10.1215/S0012-7094-74-04103-9). Retrieved 2014-01-06.

1. Stephen G. Brush (1996-02-23). "A History of Modern Planetary Physics: Transmuted Past". Retrieved 2014-01-06.

1. Martin Gardiner. "Mathematical Puzzling". Retrieved 2014-01-06.

1. ["Carl Friedrich Gauss, A Biography by Tord Hall. by (Hall, Tord.) from Richard Press Art Books | Sacramento, CA"](http://www.bibliopolis.com/main/books/2619030.html). Bibliopolis. Retrieved 2014-01-06.

1. Tord Hall. ["Tord Hall (Author of Carl Friedrich Gauss)"](https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/741341.Tord_Hall). Goodreads.com. Retrieved 2014-01-06.

## External links

- ["Tord Hall | The MIT Press"](http://mitpress2.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=2055). Mitpress2.mit.edu. Retrieved 2014-05-22.
- ["Carl Friedrich Gauss : a biography / by Tord Hall; translated by Albert Froderberg. - Version details - Trove"](http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/21902674?selectedversion=NBD553969). Trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 2014-05-22.
- ["426 (Vem är det : Svensk biografisk handbok / 1985)"](https://runeberg.org/vemardet/1985/0426.html). Runeberg.org. Retrieved 2014-05-22.

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