Anders Martin-Löf (born 16 March 1940) is a Swedish

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and

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. He has been a

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at the Department of Mathematics of

Stockholm University Stockholm University (SU) () is a public university, public research university in Stockholm, Sweden, founded as a college in 1878, with university status since 1960. With over 33,000 students at four different faculties: law, humanities, social ...

. Martin-Löf did his undergraduate studies at the

KTH Royal Institute of Technology KTH Royal Institute of Technology (), abbreviated KTH, is a Public university, public research university in Stockholm, Sweden. KTH conducts research and education in Institute of technology, engineering and technology and is Sweden's largest te ...

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and got his exam in

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in 1963. He continued with graduate studies in optimization at KTH and at

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in the

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from 1967–1968, later on followed by a position as Research Associate at the

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1970–1971, working with

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and applications to

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. he received his Ph.D. degree in 1973. During the following 10 years he continued working with similar issues as "docent" in

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and Stockholm. In the 1980s he changed to insurance mathematics with the

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company including development of theories for controlling movements of insurances. From 1987 he has been working with theoretical and applied aspects of his assignment as professor with the Stockholm University. Martin-Löf has two children from his first marriage and a daughter from his second. Anders is the brother of

Per Martin-Löf Per Erik Rutger Martin-Löf (; ; born 8 May 1942) is a Sweden, Swedish logician, philosopher, and mathematical statistics, mathematical statistician. He is internationally renowned for his work on the foundations of probability, statistics, mathe ...

, who was responsible for a pioneering definition of

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, as well as a foundation for constructive mathematics based on

intuitionistic type theory Intuitionistic type theory (also known as constructive type theory, or Martin-Löf type theory (MLTT)) is a type theory and an alternative foundation of mathematics. Intuitionistic type theory was created by Per Martin-Löf, a Swedish mathematicia ...

. Per is also a professor at Stockholm University, with joint appointments in the departments of mathematics and philosophy. They share an interest in statistics, and in statistical mechanics, though Per has been more interested in the foundations of statistics, while Anders has been more interested in

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. Their elder brother Johan is also an engineering physicist, but more inclined to

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. Martin-Löf was a fellow student at KTH with Olav Kallenberg.

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External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Martin-Lof, Anders Swedish statisticians KTH Royal Institute of Technology alumni Academic staff of Stockholm University 20th-century Swedish mathematicians 21st-century Swedish mathematicians Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences 1940 births Living people