Lisa Lorentzen

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Lisa Lorentzen (also published as Lisa Jacobsen) is a Norwegian mathematician known for her work on continued fractions. She is a professor emerita in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). [1]

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Books

With Haakon Waadeland  [ no ], Lorentzen is the author of the book Continued Fractions with Applications (Studies in Computational Mathematics 3, North-Holland, 1992; 2nd ed., Atlantis Studies in Mathematics for Engineering and Science, Springer, 2008). [2]

She is also the author of two textbooks in Norwegian: Kalkulus for ingeniører [Calculus for engineers] and Hva er matematikk  [ no ] [What is mathematics?], [3] [4] and co-author with Arne Hole and Tom Louis Lindstrøm of Kalkulus med én og flere variable [Calculus with single and multiple variables].

Recognition

Lorentzen is a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters. [5] She was the 1986 winner of the academic prize of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters. [6]

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References

  1. "Lisa Lorentzen", Employee profile, Norwegian University of Science and Technology , retrieved 2020-03-23
  2. Reviews of Continued Fractions with Applications:
  3. To korte og en lang: Tre bøker om hva matematikk er (in Norwegian), University of Oslo Mathematical Institute, 24 May 2013, retrieved 2020-03-23
  4. Mikkelsen, Solveig (28 November 2012), "Aktuell med bok om matematikk: Skjønnheten i å skjønne", Universitetsavisa, retrieved 2020-03-23
  5. Gruppe I: Matmatikk, Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters , retrieved 2020-03-23
  6. Oversikt vitenskapelige priser (in Norwegian), Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, archived from the original on 2014-12-29