Gabriel Kron | |
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Born | |
Died | October 25, 1968 | (aged 66–67)
Nationality | Hungarian-American |
Alma mater | University of Michigan |
Known for | Kron reduction Diakoptics |
Awards | Montefiore Prize Coffin Award |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Electrical engineering |
Institutions | General 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.