Jens Erik Fenstad
Mathematician, Author
1935 –
Who is Jens Erik Fenstad?
Jens Erik Fenstad is a Norwegian mathematician.
He graduated as mag.scient. from the University of Oslo in 1959, and worked as a research fellow there and at Berkeley. He was a professor at the University of Oslo from 1968 to 2003, except for the years 1989 to 1993, when he was vice rector. He has an honorary degree at Uppsala University.
He has chaired the Norwegian Mathematical Society and the World Commission on Ethics of the UNESCO, and co-founded the Abel Prize. He has also edited the journal Nordisk Matematisk Tidsskrift. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
He resides at Østerås.
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