Lisa Lorentzen
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]
Books[edit]
With Haakon Waadeland, 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 [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[edit]
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]
References[edit]
- ^ "Lisa Lorentzen", Employee profile, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, retrieved 2020-03-23
- ^ Reviews of Continued Fractions with Applications:
- ^ 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
- ^ Mikkelsen, Solveig (28 November 2012), "Aktuell med bok om matematikk: Skjønnheten i å skjønne", Universitetsavisa, retrieved 2020-03-23
- ^ Gruppe I: Matmatikk, Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, retrieved 2020-03-23
- ^ Oversikt vitenskapelige priser (in Norwegian), Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, archived from the original on 2014-12-29
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