Paco Lagerstrom

Paco Axel Lagerstrom
BornFebruary 24, 1914
Oskarshamn, Sweden
DiedFebruary 16, 1989 (1989-02-17) (aged 74)[1]
Pasadena, California
Alma materUniversity of Stockholm
Princeton University
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship[1]
Scientific career
FieldsAsymptotic expansion
Fluid mechanics
InstitutionsCaltech
Thesis Measure and Integral in Partially Ordered Spaces  (1942)
Doctoral advisorSalomon Bochner[2]
Doctoral studentsJulian Cole
Athanassios S. Fokas
Milton Van Dyke
Saul Kaplun
Stephen Childress

Paco Axel Lagerstrom (February 24, 1914 – February 16, 1989) was a Swedish-American applied mathematician and aeronautical engineer. He was trained formally in mathematics, but worked for much of his career in aeronautical applications. He was known for work in applying the method of asymptotic expansion to fluid mechanics problems.[3] Several of his works have become classics, including "Matched Asymptotic Expansions: Ideas And Techniques".[4]

  1. ^ a b Princeton Alumni Weekly Archived 2011-07-23 at the Wayback Machine, April 3, 1991.
  2. ^ Paco Lagerstrom at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Narasimha, R. (2004) Divide, conquer and unify, Nature 432(7019), 807.
  4. ^ Lagerstrom, P. A. (1988) Matched Asymptotic Expansions: Ideas And Techniques, Springer.