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Øksendal (surname)
Øksendal is a Norwegian surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Asbjørn Øksendal (1922–2015), Norwegian novelist and non-fiction writer *Bernt Øksendal Bernt Karsten Øksendal (born 10 April 1945 in Fredrikstad) is a Norwegian mathematician. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Oslo, working under Otte Hustad. He obtained his PhD from University of California, Los Angeles ... (born 1945), Norwegian mathematician {{surname, Øksendal Norwegian-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwegian Surname
Heritable family names were generally adopted rather late within Scandinavia. Nobility were the first to take names that would be passed on from one generation to the next. Later, clergy, artisans and merchants in cities took heritable names. Family names (surnames) were still used together with ''primary patronyms'' (father's name plus an affix denoting relationship), which were used by all social classes. This meant that most families until modern times did not have surnames. Scandinavian patronyms were generally derived from the father's given name with the addition of a suffix meaning 'son' or 'daughter' or by occupation like Møller - ( Miller ) naming tradition remained commonly used throughout the Scandinavian countries during the time of surname formation. Forms of the patronymic suffixes include: ''-son'', ''-sen'', ''-fen'', ''-søn'', ''-ler'', ''-zen'', ''-zon/zoon'', and ''-sson'','datter'. Denmark The most common Danish family name surnames are patronymic and end in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asbjørn Øksendal
Asbjørn Øksendal (4 August 1922 – 23 May 2015) was a Norwegian novelist and non-fiction writer. He was born in Mosjøen, Helgeland. He wrote several books on the subject of the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, including ''Lurøy-affæren'' from 1966, ''Operasjon Oleander'' from 1968, ''Når nøden er størst'' (on POW camps in Trøndelag) from 1969, ''Sluttspill i Rinnans bandekloster'' (on Sonderabteilung Lola) from 1971, and ''Gulltransporten'' (on the flight of the Norwegian National Treasury) from 1974. He also wrote novels from the Viking Age The Viking Age (about ) was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonising, conquest, and trading throughout Europe and reached North America. The Viking Age applies not only to their .... He died in May 2015. References 1922 births 2015 deaths People from Vefsn Norwegian non-fiction writers 20th-century Norwegian novelists 21st-century Norwegian novelist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernt Øksendal
Bernt Karsten Øksendal (born 10 April 1945 in Fredrikstad) is a Norwegian mathematician. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Oslo, working under Otte Hustad. He obtained his PhD from University of California, Los Angeles in 1971; his thesis was titled ''Peak Sets and Interpolation Sets for Some Algebras of Analytic Functions'' and was supervised by Theodore Gamelin. In 1991, he was appointed as a professor at the University of Oslo. In 1992, he was appointed as an adjunct professor at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Bergen, Norway. His main field of interest is stochastic analysis Stochastic calculus is a branch of mathematics that operates on stochastic processes. It allows a consistent theory of integration to be defined for integrals of stochastic processes with respect to stochastic processes. This field was created an ..., including stochastic control, optimal stopping, stochastic ordinary and partial differential ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |