Lars Hörmander, Swedish mathematician and academic (died 2012)

Lars Hörmander

Swedish mathematician (1931–2012)

Lars Valter Hörmander was a Swedish mathematician who has been called "the foremost contributor to the modern theory of linear partial differential equations". Hörmander was awarded the Fields Medal in 1962 and the Wolf Prize in 1988. In 2006 he was awarded the Steele Prize for…