Arnfinn Laudal, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Arnfinn Laudal

Norwegian mathematician

Date of Birth: 19-Jun-1936

Place of Birth: Kirkenes, Northern Norway, Norway

Profession: professor, mathematician

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Arnfinn Laudal

  • Olav Arnfinn Laudal (born 19 June 1936) is a Norwegian mathematician. He was born in Kirkenes as the son of teachers Trygve Laudal (1896–1964) and Agnes Mønnesland (1898–1982).
  • He finished his secondary education in 1954 in Mandal, and enrolled in the University of Oslo in the same year.
  • He studied at École Normale SupĂ©rieure from 1957, but in 1958 he was back in Oslo and took the cand.real.
  • degree.
  • He was a research fellow at Columbia University and Institut Henri PoincarĂ© between 1959 and 1962.
  • He was appointed as lecturer at the University of Oslo in 1962, was promoted to docent in 1964 and was a professor from 1985 to 2003.
  • His most notable book is 1979's Formal Moduli of Algebraic Structures.
  • He was among the founders of the Abel Prize, and has been involved in the International Centre for Theoretical Physics.
  • He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and has been a deputy member of Bærum municipal council for the Socialist Left Party.

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