wikipedia | 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
quantumchemistryhistory | Gabriel Kron, a very fascinating man. What I
could do with the history of Gabriel Kron. He was thrown out of the
University of Michigan. I'll tell you a little bit about him that's not
in my book; I did something else. He was thrown out of the University of
Michigan because he was always fighting with the instructors, at
something like sixteen. He decided to work his way around the world, and
came to Hollywood. He was very brilliant. He had so many problems
because his professors were a couple of light years behind him. He got
back to Hollywood, signed a contract for $10,000 or so to work on his
new experimental movie camera, and the company that gave him the
contract paid him the money up front and went bankrupt. So he had a year
or two with no work to do. He came to New York City. In the public
library he started to read books on mathematics and became the inventor
of something called tensor analysis. It became quite important but then
he worked for GE. He was unusual and was not easy to work with because
he was ahead of his time. You have to mention him in the history of
electrical engineering because he was a character....
Book listing (no ad) taken from alibris.com 8/2003.
Yet another reference to G. Kron, 8/2003, - from here
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Andrei Petrov described Kuznetsov's work on the method of tensor analysis for the handling of physical systems of extreme complexity, based on earlier work by the American engineer Gabriel Kron, whom Kuznetsov held in high esteem. Petrov also recounted the origin of the discovery of the significance of what Kuznetsov called the "Principle of Conservation of Power," for the understanding of living systems as well as physical economies, whose evolution proceeds in the opposite direction as that implied by the so-called Second Law of Thermodynamics. ...
Also: Gabriel Kron. Tensors for Circuits. Dover Publication, Inc., second Edition, 1959.
Some other links:
http://www-ec.njit.edu/civil/fabric/automated/CH9.pdf
Yet another reference to G. Kron, 8/2003, - from here
.....
Andrei Petrov described Kuznetsov's work on the method of tensor analysis for the handling of physical systems of extreme complexity, based on earlier work by the American engineer Gabriel Kron, whom Kuznetsov held in high esteem. Petrov also recounted the origin of the discovery of the significance of what Kuznetsov called the "Principle of Conservation of Power," for the understanding of living systems as well as physical economies, whose evolution proceeds in the opposite direction as that implied by the so-called Second Law of Thermodynamics. ...
Also: Gabriel Kron. Tensors for Circuits. Dover Publication, Inc., second Edition, 1959.
Some other links:
http://www-ec.njit.edu/civil/fabric/automated/CH9.pdf
