Axel Johannes Malmquist


Axel Johannes Malmquist was a Swedish mathematician working in the area of ordinary differential equations.
He studied in the University of Stockholm in 1900-1907 and obtained PhD in Stockholm in 1909.
He worked in the university of Stockholm in 1903-1913, and then became a professor in the Stockholm Institute of Technology.
His most famous results are Malmquist theorems on first order algebraic differential equations,
and discovery of Hamiltonian structure of Painleve equations.