Dan Laksov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Dan Laksov

Norwegian-Swedish mathematician and human rights activist

Date of Birth: 10-Jul-1940

Place of Birth: Oslo, Eastern Norway, Norway

Date of Death: 25-Oct-2013

Profession: mathematician, human rights activist

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Dan Laksov

  • Dan Laksov (10 July 1940 – 25 October 2013) was a Norwegian-Swedish mathematician and human rights activist.He graduated in mathematics from the University of Bergen and took the doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  • He was a professor of mathematics at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden.
  • He also served as a director of the Mittag-Leffler Institute and editor of the institute's journal Acta Mathematica.
  • His main contributions were in algebra, algebraic geometry and Schubert calculus.
  • He was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
  • In 2008 he received an honorary degree at the University of Bergen.Laksov was born in Oslo in 1940, the same year that Norway was occupied by Nazi Germany.
  • He was a son of Amalie Laksov, née Scheer and HÃ¥kon Laksov; the family were Jews.
  • In the book I slik en natt.
  • Historien om deportasjonen av jøder fra Norge by Kristian Ottosen, the escape of Amalie and Dan from Norway in November 1942 is chronicled.
  • HÃ¥kon and Amalie's four brothers were all captured as a part of the arresting of all Norwegian Jews, shipped to Auschwitz and perished there.
  • The family's apartment was usurped by the family of a leading Young Nazi leader, Bjørn Østring, but retrieved after the war.
  • In 1945 Dan returned to Oslo where he lived with his grandparents, while Amalie commuted to Bergen.
  • In 1983, Amalie Laksov created a foundation for human rights, Amalie Laksovs Minnefond.
  • Dan Laksov was a board member here, and member of the committee that awarded the Laksov Prize for human rights.
  • Amalie Laksov died in 2008, aged 97, while Dan Laksov died in Stockholm in October 2013.

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