Gabriel Kron

Gabriel Kron
Born(1901-12-01)December 1, 1901
DiedOctober 25, 1968(1968-10-25) (aged 66–67)
NationalityHungarian-American
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
Known forKron reduction
Diakoptics
AwardsMontefiore Prize
Coffin Award
Scientific career
FieldsElectrical engineering
InstitutionsGeneral Electric

Gabriel Kron (1901 – 1968) was a Hungarian American electrical engineer who promoted the use of methods of linear algebra, multilinear algebra, and differential geometry in the field. His method of system decomposition and solution called Diakoptics is still influential today. Though he published widely, his methods were slow to be assimilated. At Union College a symposium was organized by Schaffer Library on "Gabriel Kron, the Man and His Work", held October 14, 1969. H.H. Happ edited the contributed papers, which were published by Union College Press as Gabriel Kron and Systems Theory.