Gabriel Kron (born in Nagybanya, Hungary, 1901) was considered an unconventional and somewhat controversial Engineer who worked for General Electric in the US from 1934 until his death in 1968. He was responsible for the first load flow (electricity) distribution system in New York. Kron is famous for his Method of Tearing or Diakoptics.
Instead of taking a conventional postgraduate degree, Kron went on a two year walking tour around the world
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Gabriel Kron (born in Nagybanya, Hungary, 1901) was considered an unconventional and somewhat controversial Engineer who worked for General Electric in the US from 1934 until his death in 1968. He was responsible for the first load flow (electricity) distribution system in New York. Kron is famous for his Method of Tearing or Diakoptics.
Instead of taking a conventional postgraduate degree, Kron went on a two year walking tour around the world
The Method of Tearing is a technique for splitting up physical problems into subproblems, solving each individual subproblem and then recombining to give an (unexpectedly) exact overall solution. The technique is efficient on sequential computers, but is particularly so on parallel architectures. Its relevance to quantum parallelism is not yet understood. It is peculiar as a decomposition method, in that it involves taking values on the "intersection layer" (the boundary between subsystems) into account. The method has been rediscovered by the...
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