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Norwegian Mathematics Society
The Norwegian Mathematical Society ( no, Norsk matematisk forening, NMF) is a professional society for mathematicians. It was formed in 1918, with Carl Størmer elected as its first president. It organizes mathematical contests and the annual Abel symposium and also awards the Viggo Brun Prize to young Norwegian mathematicians for outstanding research in mathematics, including mathematical aspects of information technology, mathematical physics, numerical analysis, and computational science. The 2018 Prize winner was Rune Gjøringbø Haugseng. The NMF is a member of the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and provides the Norwegian National Committee in the International Mathematical Union. Past Presidents and Honorary Members The Society elected two Honorary Members: Carl Størmer (elected 22 February 1949) and Viggo Brun Viggo Brun (13 October 1885 – 15 August 1978) was a Norwegian professor, mathematician and number theorist. Contribut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poul Heegaard
Poul Heegaard (; November 2, 1871, Copenhagen - February 7, 1948, Oslo) was a Danish mathematician active in the field of topology. His 1898 thesis introduced a concept now called the Heegaard splitting of a 3-manifold. Heegaard's ideas allowed him to make a careful critique of work of Henri Poincaré. Poincaré had overlooked the possibility of the appearance of torsion in the homology groups of a space. He later co-authored, with Max Dehn, a foundational article on combinatorial topology, in the form of an encyclopedia entry. Heegaard studied mathematics at the University of Copenhagen, from 1889 to 1893 and following years of travelling, and teaching mathematics, he was appointed professor at University of Copenhagen in 1910. An English translation of his 1898 thesis, which laid a rigorous topological foundation for modern knot theory, may be found at https://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~v1ranick/papers/heegaardenglish.pdf. The section on "a visually transparent representation of the co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Tambs Lyche
Ralph Tambs Lyche (6 September 1890 – 15 January 1991) was a Norwegian mathematician. He was born in Macon, Georgia as a son of Norwegian father Hans Tambs Lyche Hans Tambs Lyche ( 21 November 1859 – 16 April 1898) was a Norwegian engineer, Unitarian minister, journalist, and magazine editor. Background Hans Tambs Lyche was born in Fredrikshald, in Østfold county, Norway. His parents were Wilh ... (1859–1898) and American mother Mary Rebecca Godden (1856–1938). He moved to Norway at the age of two. He examen artium, finished his secondary education in Fredrikstad in 1908, and was hired as an assistant for Richard Birkeland at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1910. At the same time he studied at the University of Oslo, Royal Frederick University, graduating with the cand.real. degree in 1916. He was hired as a docent in mathematics at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1918. He took his doctorate in Strasbourg in 1927 following a two-year fellowshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scientific Organisations Based In Norway
Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for scientific reasoning is tens of thousands of years old. The earliest written records in the history of science come from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in around 3000 to 1200 BCE. Their contributions to mathematics, astronomy, and medicine entered and shaped Greek natural philosophy of classical antiquity, whereby formal attempts were made to provide explanations of events in the physical world based on natural causes. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, knowledge of Greek conceptions of the world deteriorated in Western Europe during the early centuries (400 to 1000 CE) of the Middle Ages, but was preserved in the Muslim world during the Islamic Golden Age and later by the efforts of Byzantine Greek scholars who brought Greek man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Education In Norway
Education in Norway is mandatory for all children aged from 6 to 16. Schools are typically divided into two divisions: primary and lower secondary schooling. The majority of schools in Norway are municipal, where local governments fund and manage administration. Primary and lower secondary schools are available and free of charge for all Norwegian citizens as a given right. When primary and lower secondary education is completed, upper secondary schooling is entitled to students for enrollment, which prepares students for higher education or vocational studies. The school year in Norway runs from mid August to late June the following year. The Christmas holiday from mid December to early January historically divides the Norwegian school year into two terms. Presently, the second term begins in January. History of education in Norway Organized education in Norway dates as far back as Year 2000 B.C. Shortly after Norway became an archdiocese in 1153, cathedral schools were const ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathematical Societies
Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics with the major subdisciplines of number theory, algebra, geometry, and analysis, respectively. There is no general consensus among mathematicians about a common definition for their academic discipline. Most mathematical activity involves the discovery of properties of abstract objects and the use of pure reason to prove them. These objects consist of either abstractions from nature orin modern mathematicsentities that are stipulated to have certain properties, called axioms. A ''proof'' consists of a succession of applications of deductive rules to already established results. These results include previously proved theorems, axioms, andin case of abstraction from naturesome basic properties that are considered true starting points of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigmund Selberg
Sigmund Selberg (11 August 1910 – 20 April 1994) was a Norwegian mathematician. He was born in Langesund as the son of Ole Michael Ludvigsen Selberg and Anna Kristina Brigtsdatter Skeie. He was twin brother of Arne Selberg and brother of Henrik Selberg and Atle Selberg. He was appointed professor of mathematics at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim from 1947 to 1977. His works mainly focused on the distribution of prime number A prime number (or a prime) is a natural number greater than 1 that is not a product of two smaller natural numbers. A natural number greater than 1 that is not prime is called a composite number. For example, 5 is prime because the only ways ...s. References 1910 births 1994 deaths People from Bamble Academic staff of the Norwegian Institute of Technology Norwegian twins 20th-century Norwegian mathematicians Presidents of the Norwegian Mathematical Society {{Norway-academic-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristian Seip
Kristian Seip (born 24 June 1962) is a Norwegian mathematician. He obtained his doctor's degree at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1988, and became a professor in 1994. The Norwegian Institute of Technology was renamed into the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 1996. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin in 1998. Seip was among the editorial staff for the journal ''Acta Mathematica'' from 2003 to 2012 and is an editor of ''Journal of Functional Analysis'' since 2016. Seip chaired the Norwegian Mathematical Society from 2003 to 2007 and the committee that awards the Abel Prize from 2007 to 2010. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geir Ellingsrud
Geir Ellingsrud (born 29 November 1948) is professor of mathematics at the University of Oslo, where he specialises in algebra and algebraic geometry. He took the cand.real. degree at the University of Oslo in 1973, and the doctorate at Stockholm University in 1982. He was a lecturer at Stockholm University from 1982 to 1984, associate professor at the University of Oslo from 1984 to 1989, professor at the University of Bergen from 1989 to 1993 and at the University of Oslo since 1993. He has been a visiting scholar in Nice, Paris, Bonn and Chicago. He has edited the journals ''Acta Mathematica'' and ''Normat''. In 2005 Ellingsrud was elected to be rector of the University of Oslo for the period 2006-2009. His team also consisted of Inga Bostad and Haakon Breien Benestad. He did not seek reelection to a second term, and was succeeded by Ole Petter Ottersen Ole Petter Ottersen (born 17 March 1955) is a Norwegian physician and neuroscientist. He serves as the Rector of Karolinska ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ragni Piene
Ragni Piene (born 18 January 1947, Oslo) is a Norway, Norwegian mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry, with particular interest in enumerative results and intersection theory. Education and career After a bachelor's degree from the University of Oslo in 1969 and a DEA from Université de Paris in 1970 Piene received a doctorate in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976, advised by Steven Kleiman. Her dissertation was titled ''Plücker Formulas''. She was appointed professor at the University of Oslo in 1987. Recognition She was elected a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 1994, and in 2012 she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society and a member of the Academia Europaea. We is also one of the protagonists of the Women of mathematics exhibition. Service Since 2003 she has been a member of the executive committee of the International Mathematical Union, and was the chair of the Abel Prize, Abel Committe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernt Øksendal
Bernt Karsten Øksendal (born 10 April 1945 in Fredrikstad) is a Norwegian mathematician. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Oslo, working under Otte Hustad. He obtained his PhD from University of California, Los Angeles in 1971; his thesis was titled ''Peak Sets and Interpolation Sets for Some Algebras of Analytic Functions'' and was supervised by Theodore Gamelin. In 1991, he was appointed as a professor at the University of Oslo. In 1992, he was appointed as an adjunct professor at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Bergen, Norway. His main field of interest is stochastic analysis, including stochastic control, optimal stopping, stochastic ordinary and partial differential equations and applications, particularly to physics, biology and finance. For his contributions to these fields, he was awarded the Nansen Prize in 1996. He has been a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters since 1996. He was elected as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dag Normann
Dag Normann is a Norwegian mathematical logician. He was born in 1947 and is Professor emeritus at the University of Oslo. His research focuses on computability theory with an emphasis on mathematical models for typed algorithms and applications of the foundations of mathematics. Career Normann obtained his doctoral degree from the University of Oslo under the supervision of Jens Erik Fenstad in 1976. He was professor at the University of Oslo where he retired in 2015. He published numerous books and research papers; in particular, together with John Longley, he published the book ''Higher-Order Computability'', the standard research reference of the field, in the book series ''Theory and Applications of Computability'' in 2015. Normann is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (DNVA) in the Natural Sciences Division. In the past, he was the head of the Group of Mathematical Sciences within DNVA. From 1983 to 1985 and from 2000 to 2003, he was the President ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erling Størmer
Erling Størmer (born 2 November 1937) is a Norwegian mathematician, who has mostly worked with operator algebras. He was born in Oslo as a son of Leif Størmer. He was a grandson of Carl Størmer and nephew of Per Størmer. He took his doctorate at Columbia University in 1963 with thesis advisor Richard Kadison, and was a professor at the University of Oslo from 1974 to his retirement in 2007. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. retrieved 2013-08-05. See also *Jordan operator algebra ...
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