Carl Jensen Burrau
Danish mathematician
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- PhD Mathematics University of Copenhagen
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Carl Jensen Burrau was a Danish mathematician who worked on problems relating to physics and astronomy while also working as an actuary. Burrau was born in Helsingör , Denmark and was educated at Copenhagen University. He worked as an astronomy assistant at the university observatory from 1893 to 1898. He is known for his work on a three-body problem, examining the orbits of two equal masses revolving about each other. His collaborations with Törvald Thiele led to the so-called Thiele–Burrau method. His dissertation of 1895 examines methods of identifying constants from photographs of star positions using Bessel's classic method. He then worked on actuarial mathematics, writing a book on the subject, Forsikringsstatistikens Grundlag , and taught applied mathematics at Copenhagen university.
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