==Etymology==The city's name is believed to be constructed from the words "väg" (road) and "sjö" (lake), meaning the road over the frozen Växjö Lake that farmers took in the winter to get to the marketplace that later became the city.
Tedaj sta ga matematik Daniel J. Madden in fizik Lee W. Jacobi rešila s pomočjo eliptičnih krivulj in dokazala, da ima enačba neskončno mnogo rešitev.