Stål Aanderaa (born 1 February 1931) is a Norwegian mathematician.

Biography

Aanderaa was born in

Beitstad Beitstad () is a village in Steinkjer Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The village is located along the Beitstadsundet strait at the end of the Beitstadfjorden at the inner end of the Trondheimsfjord, about southwest of the village o ...

. He completed the mag.scient. degree in 1959 and his doctorate at

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

in 1966. He was a professor at the

University of Oslo The University of Oslo (; ) is a public university, public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation#Europe, oldest university in Norway. Originally named the Royal Frederick Univ ...

from 1978 to his retirement in 2001. Aanderaa is a member of the

Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (, 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 University in Christiania was establis ...

Work

Aanderaa is one of the namesakes of the

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 ...

References

1931 births Living people Norwegian mathematicians Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Norwegian expatriates in the United States Academic staff of the University of Oslo Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters People from Steinkjer {{Europe-mathematician-stub