Lisa Lorentzen (born 1943,[1] 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).[2]
Books
editWith 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).[3]
She is also the author of two textbooks in Norwegian: Kalkulus for ingeniører [Calculus for engineers] and Hva er matematikk [What is mathematics?],[4][5] and co-author with Arne Hole and Tom Louis Lindstrøm of Kalkulus med én og flere variable [Calculus with single and multiple variables].
Recognition
editLorentzen is a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.[6] She was the 1986 winner of the academic prize of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.[7]
References
edit- ^ "Lisa Lorentzen". Deichman. Retrieved 2024-07-27.
- ^ "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