Lars-Erik Persson (born 24 September 1944) is a Swedish/Norwegian professor in mathematics, known for his works in Fourier analysis, function spaces,

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and related problems connected to convexity and quasi-monotone functions. Persson comes from the small village Svanabyn in Dorotea community, Sweden. He received his PhD degree in mathematics at

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in 1974. In 1975 he was employed as associate professor in mathematics at

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(LTU), and was appointed full professor in 1994. Since 2019 he is professor emeritus there. Before his professor appointment at LTU, he was appointed as full professor at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Campus Narvik (previously

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) in 1992. He still works as professor of mathematics at the same university. He was also appointed as honorary professor at

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, Kazakhstan in 2005. Persson has also worked as a part-time professor at

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, where he is now professor emeritus. For a shorter period he taught at

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. See his homepage at UiT The Arctic University of Norway and his homepage at Karlstad University;Sweden – See also international homepage of Lars-Erik Persson Persson has been invited as guest researcher to universities in numerous countries. In November 2015 he was invited to Collège de France by Fields medalist

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. International conferences were arranged and a journal issue was published in his honor.D. Lukkassen and A. Meidell, Lars-Erik Persson- the remarkable broad and innovative mathematician and unique Pers(s)on, Nonlinear studies 26 (2019), no. 4, 707-722.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Persson, Lars-Erik Living people Swedish mathematicians 1944 births Umeå University alumni