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Henning Haahr Andersen is a mathematician specializing in
Algebraic group
In mathematics, an algebraic group is an algebraic variety endowed with a group structure which is compatible with its structure as an algebraic variety. Thus the study of algebraic groups belongs both to algebraic geometry and group theory.
Ma ...
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Lie algebras,
Quantum group
In mathematics and theoretical physics, the term quantum group denotes one of a few different kinds of noncommutative algebras with additional structure. These include Drinfeld–Jimbo type quantum groups (which are quasitriangular Hopf algebra ...
s and
Representation theory
Representation theory is a branch of mathematics that studies abstract algebraic structures by ''representing'' their elements as linear transformations of vector spaces, and studies modules over these abstract algebraic structures. In essen ...
.
Andersen received his Ph.D. from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...
in 1977 under the supervision of
Steven Lawrence Kleiman.
In 2012, Andersen 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 international community through its publications, meetings, ...
.
List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
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References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
20th-century Danish mathematicians
21st-century Danish mathematicians
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
Academic staff of Aarhus University
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