A
mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
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is a scholar in the fields of
mathematics. They solve and research
mathematical problem
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s which can be applied in real life or completely abstract (pure). This article covers notable mathematicans from
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and th ...
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A pioneer of modern mathematics,
Niels Henrik Abel
Niels Henrik Abel ( , ; 5 August 1802 – 6 April 1829) was a Norwegian mathematician who made pioneering contributions in a variety of fields. His most famous single result is the first complete proof demonstrating the impossibility of solvin ...
contributed greatly towards various fields of mathematics
during his short life. He died in 1829, aged 26, from
tuberculosis
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.
German mathematician
Felix Klein
Christian Felix Klein (; 25 April 1849 – 22 June 1925) was a German mathematician and mathematics educator, known for his work with group theory, complex analysis, non-Euclidean geometry, and on the associations between geometry and group ...
spoke of his reluctance "to part from this ideal type of researcher". In 2001, the
Abel Prize
The Abel Prize ( ; no, Abelprisen ) is awarded annually by the King of Norway to one or more outstanding mathematicians. It is named after the Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel (1802–1829) and directly modeled after the Nobel Prizes. ...
was established in his honour.
Other notable mathematicians include (in alphabetical order)
Carl Anton Bjerknes
Carl Anton Bjerknes ( , ; 24 October 1825 – 20 March 1903) was a Norwegian mathematician and physicist. Bjerknes' earlier work was in pure mathematics, but he is principally known for his studies in hydrodynamics.
Biography
Carl Anton Bjer ...
,
Vilhelm Bjerknes
Vilhelm Friman Koren Bjerknes ( , ; 14 March 1862 – 9 April 1951) was a Norwegian physicist and meteorologist who did much to found the modern practice of weather forecasting. He formulated the primitive equations that are still in use in nu ...
,
Bernt Michael Holmboe
Bernt Michael Holmboe (23 March 1795 – 28 March 1850) was a Norwegian mathematician. He was home-tutored from an early age, and was not enrolled in school until 1810. Following a short period at the Royal Frederick University, which included a ...
, who is known for being Abel's teacher and tutor,
Sophus Lie
Marius Sophus Lie ( ; ; 17 December 1842 – 18 February 1899) was a Norwegian mathematician. He largely created the theory of continuous symmetry and applied it to the study of geometry and differential equations.
Life and career
Marius Sop ...
,
Idun Reiten,
Atle Selberg
Atle Selberg (14 June 1917 – 6 August 2007) was a Norwegian mathematician known for his work in analytic number theory and the theory of automorphic forms, and in particular for bringing them into relation with spectral theory. He was awarded t ...
,
Thoralf Skolem
Thoralf Albert Skolem (; 23 May 1887 – 23 March 1963) was a Norwegian mathematician who worked in mathematical logic and set theory.
Life
Although Skolem's father was a primary school teacher, most of his extended family were farmers. Skolem ...
and
Carl Størmer
Fredrik Carl Mülertz Størmer (3 September 1874 – 13 August 1957) was a Norwegian mathematician and astrophysicist. In mathematics, he is known for his work in number theory
Number theory (or arithmetic or higher arithmetic in older u ...
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Alphabetical order
''"Aa" appears under "å" as they are considered different representations of the same letter.''
See also
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Archiv for Mathematik og Naturvidenskab
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Bjerknes (lunar crater)
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Bjerknes (Martian crater)
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List of things named after Niels Henrik Abel
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Abel Prize
The Abel Prize ( ; no, Abelprisen ) is awarded annually by the King of Norway to one or more outstanding mathematicians. It is named after the Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel (1802–1829) and directly modeled after the Nobel Prizes. ...
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Selberg class
In mathematics, the Selberg class is an axiomatic definition of a class of ''L''-functions. The members of the class are Dirichlet series which obey four axioms that seem to capture the essential properties satisfied by most functions that are c ...
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Weather forecasting
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Aanderaa–Karp–Rosenberg conjecture
In theoretical computer science, the Aanderaa–Karp–Rosenberg conjecture (also known as the Aanderaa–Rosenberg conjecture or the evasiveness conjecture) is a group of related conjectures about the number of questions of the form "Is there an ...
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