Kristian Barstad Dysthe (16 September 1937 – 30 July 2023) was a Norwegian mathematician.

Biography

Dysthe took the cand.real. degree at the University of Bergen in 1962, and the

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degree in 1972. He became professor in applied mathematics at the University of Tromsø in 1972, and at the University of Bergen from 1992 to retirement in 2007. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge, the

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and the

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. He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Dysthe died on 30 July 2023, at the age of 85.

References

1937 births 2023 deaths Norwegian mathematicians University of Bergen alumni Academic staff of the University of Tromsø Academic staff of the University of Bergen Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters {{Europe-mathematician-stub