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Stensønes at Oberwolfach, 2018

Berit Stensønes (19 February 1956 – 5 June 2022)[1][2] was a Norwegian mathematician specializing in complex analysis and complex dynamics and known for her work on several complex variables.[3] She was a professor of mathematical sciences at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU),[4] and a professor emerita at the University of Michigan.[5]

Education

Stensønes completed her Ph.D. in 1985 at Princeton University. Her dissertation, Envelopes of Holomorphy, was supervised by John Erik Fornæss.[6]

Book

With John Erik Fornæss, Stensønes was an author of the book Lectures on Counterexamples in Several Complex Variables (AMS Chelsea Publishing, American Mathematical Society, 1987; reprinted 2007).[7]

Recognition

Stensønes was a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.[8]

References

  1. ^ Berit Stensønes (in Norwegian)
  2. ^ Birth year from WorldCat identities, accessed 2020-03-23
  3. ^ Complex numbers make the world bigger, Center for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
  4. ^ "Berit Stensønes", Employee profile, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, retrieved 2020-03-23
  5. ^ "Berit Stensones", Emeritus faculty, University of Michigan Mathematics, retrieved 2020-03-23
  6. ^ Berit Stensønes at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  7. ^ Reviews of Lectures on Counterexamples in Several Complex Variables:
  8. ^ Gruppe I: Matmatikk, Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, retrieved 2020-03-23