Career
Frostman earned his Doctor of Philosophy in 1935 at Lund University under the Hungarian-born mathematician Marcel Riesz, the younger brother of F. Riesz. In potential theory, Frostman"s lemma is named after him.
He supervised the 1971 Stockholm University Doctor of Philosophy thesis of Berndt Lindström, which initiated the "Stockholm School" of topological combinatorics (combining simplicial homology and enumerative combinatorics).