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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 the Fields Medal in 1950 and an honorary Abel Prize in 2002.
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Aug 6, 2007 · Atle Selberg's parents were Ole Michael Ludvigsen Selberg (1877-1950) and Anna Kristina Brigtsdatter Skeie (1874-1971). Ole Selberg was a school teacher of mathematics who, at age 48 , was awarded his doctorate from the University of Oslo for his thesis Ein Beitrag zur Theorie der algebraisch auflösbaren Gleichungen von Primzahlgrad Ⓣ ( A ...
Atle Selberg (born June 14, 1917, Langesund, Nor.—died Aug. 6, 2007, Princeton, N.J., U.S.) Norwegian-born American mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1950 for his work in number theory. In 1986 he shared (with Samuel Eilenberg) the Wolf Prize. Selberg attended the University of Oslo (Ph.D., 1943) and remained there as a ...
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Atle Selberg. Widely regarded as one of the world’s greatest analytic number theorists, Norwegian mathematician Atle Selberg was appointed Professor in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1951, transitioning to Professor Emeritus in 1987. Throughout a career spanning more than six decades, Selberg made significant ...
In 1987, Selberg was named a Knight Commander with Star of the Royal Order of Saint Olav. The publication of the collected papers of Atle Selberg in two volumes (1989, 1991, Springer) was warmly welcomed by the mathematical community for Selberg's profound influence on mathematics, especially analytic number theory.
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On August 6, 2007, Atle Selberg, one of the pre-eminent mathematicians of the twentieth century, passed away at his home in Princeton, NJ, at the age of ninety. Born in Langesund, Norway, on June 14, 1917, Atle Selberg was the youngest of nine children in an academic family (his father held a doctorate in mathematics, and two of his brothers ...
Atle Selberg was born in Langesund, Norway, in 1917, the youngest of nine children of an academic family. He was interested in mathematics from boyhood, and was particularly fascinated by the life and work of the great Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920), who worked on number theory. Selberg studied at the University of Oslo ...
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