Kurt Johansson (mathematician)

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Kurt Johansson (born 1960) is a Swedish mathematician, specializing in probability theory.

Johansson received his PhD in 1988 from Uppsala University under the supervision of Lennart Carleson [1] and is a professor in mathematics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. [2]

In 2000 Johansson was awarded the Rollo Davidson Prize. In 2002 he was an invited speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing [3] and was awarded the Göran Gustafsson Prize. In 2006 he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In 2012 he was elected a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

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References

  1. Kurt Johansson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. "Kurt Johansson". kth.se.
  3. Johansson, Kurt (2003). "Toeplitz determinants, random growth and determinant processes". Proceedings of the ICM, Beijing 2002. Vol. 3. pp. 53–62. arXiv: math/0304368 .