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Works of Gabriel Kron; Diakoptics, Tensors for Circuits

Gabriel Kron’s Diakoptics

I was describing compositionality to a retired physicist. He said it reminded him of Gabriel Kron’s work on systems analysis.

Kron developed a method of analyzing systems by “tearing” them into sections, solving the sections, and then combining the solutions to produce a solution to the system.

He was an interesting character who deserves to be celebrated more than he has been.

Kron’s books are long out of print and not easy to find. I’m trying to collect and digitize some of it. This repo is where I’m keeping notes and tooling for doing that.

Here are the books I’ve found so far:

Diakoptics

1963, 166 pages. This is the only one I’ve yet scanned.

Tensors for Circuits

This is a Dover edition paperback.

Gabriel Kron and System Theory

This is not Kron’s own work, but rather a tribute by his friends and colleagues. Hardback.

kron's Issues

Uploading pdf

Hi there! I came across your repo in the middle of a diakoptics rabbit hole. Since you took the trouble to scan Kron’s book, could you maybe post the pdf somewhere that others can access it, like libgen? Libgen also has a pdf of Tensors for Circuits, so you don't need to scan it yourself. Huge thanks, and I hope you keep up this really cool project!