Idun Reiten (born 1 January 1942) is a
Norwegian
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professor
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of
mathematics. She is considered to be one of Norway's greatest mathematicians today.
Career
She took her PhD degree at the
University of Illinois
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in 1971. She was appointed as a professor at the
University of Trondheim in 1982,
now named the
Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
Her research area is
representation theory
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for
Artinian algebras
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,
commutative algebra
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, and
homological algebra. Her work with
Maurice Auslander
Maurice Auslander (August 3, 1926 – November 18, 1994) was an American mathematician who worked on commutative algebra, homological algebra and the representation theory of Artin algebras (e.g. finite-dimensional associative algebras over a field ...
now forms the part of the study of Artinian algebras known as
Auslander–Reiten theory.
Awards
In 2007, Reiten was awarded the Möbius prize. In 2009 she was awarded ''Fridtjof Nansen's award for successful researchers'', (in the field of mathematics and the natural sciences), and the "Nansen medal for outstanding research.
In 2007, she was elected a foreign member of the
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. She is also a member of the
Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
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History
The Royal Frederick Unive ...
, the
Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters
The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters ( da, Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab, DKNVS) is a Norwegian learned society based in Trondheim. It was founded in 1760 and is Norway's oldest scientific and scholarly institution. The ...
, and
Academia Europaea
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The Academia was founded in 1988 as a functioning Europe-wide Academy that encompasses all fields of scholarly inquiry. It acts as co-ordinator of Europea ...
.
In 2012, she became a fellow of the
American Mathematical Society
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. She was named
MSRI Clay Senior Scholar and Simons Professor for 2012-13.
She delivered the Emmy Noether Lecture at the
International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in 2010 in Hyderabad and was an Invited Speaker at the ICM in 1998 in Berlin.
In 2014, the Norwegian King appointed Reiten as commander of the
Order of St. Olav "for her work as a mathematician".
«Utnevnelse til St. Olavs Orden»
kongehuset.no, 4. mars 2013.
See also
* Krull–Schmidt category In category theory, a branch of mathematics, a Krull–Schmidt category is a generalization of categories in which the Krull–Schmidt theorem holds. They arise, for example, in the study of finite-dimensional module (mathematics), modules over an a ...
References
External links
*
Publikasjonsliste
at the Mathematical Reviews
1942 births
Living people
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
Academic staff of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Norwegian women mathematicians
20th-century Norwegian mathematicians
21st-century Norwegian mathematicians
Algebraists
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters
Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Members of Academia Europaea
Norwegian women academics
Scientists from Trondheim
20th-century women mathematicians
21st-century women mathematicians
20th-century Norwegian women scientists
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