Idun Reiten (born 1 January 1942) is a

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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 The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univer ...

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 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 ...

for Artinian

algebras In mathematics, an algebra over a field (often simply called an algebra) is a vector space equipped with a bilinear product. Thus, an algebra is an algebraic structure consisting of a set together with operations of multiplication and addition ...

commutative algebra Commutative algebra, first known as ideal theory, is the branch of algebra that studies commutative rings, their ideals, and modules over such rings. Both algebraic geometry and algebraic number theory build on commutative algebra. Prom ...

, 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 The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters ( no, Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi, DNVA) is a learned society based in Oslo, Norway. Its purpose is to support the advancement of science and scholarship in Norway. 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 The Academia Europaea is a pan-European Academy of Humanities, Letters, Law, and Sciences. 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 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, ...

. 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.

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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 {{Europe-mathematician-stub

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