- Lennart Carleson
Lennart Axel Edvard Carleson (born
March 18 ,1928 ) is a Swedish mathematician, known as a leader in the field ofharmonic analysis .Life
He was a student of
Arne Beurling and received hisPh.D. fromUppsala University in 1950. He is aprofessor emeritus at Uppsala University, theRoyal Institute of Technology inStockholm , and theUniversity of California, Los Angeles , and has served as director of theMittag-Leffler Institute inDjursholm outside Stockholm 1968-1984. Between 1978 and 1982 he served as president of theInternational Mathematical Union .Carleson married Butte Jonsson in 1953, and they had two children: Caspar (born 1955) and Beatrice (born 1958).
Work
His work has included the solution of some outstanding problems, by means of combinatorial techniques. These include the
corona theorem (1962) in the theory ofHardy space s, thealmost everywhere convergence of Fourier series forsquare-integrable function s, and work incomplex dynamics . He is also known for the theory ofCarleson measure s.In addition to publishing some very significant papers, Carleson has also published an influential book on
potential theory : "Selected Problems on Exceptional Sets" (Van Nostrand, 1967), and in collaboration with T. W. Gamelin, a book on the iteration of analytic functions: "Complex Dynamics" (Springer, 1993).Awards
He was awarded the
Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 1992, theLomonosov Gold Medal in 2002, theSylvester Medal in 2003,and theAbel Prize in 2006 for his profound and seminal contributions to harmonic analysis and the theory of smoothdynamic systems .External links
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* [http://www.abelprisen.no/nedlastning/2006/english_2006_press.pdf Abel Prize press release and biography] (PDF file)
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* cite journal
last = Raussen
first = Martin
coauthors = Skau, Christian
title = Interview with Abel Prize Recipient Lennart Carleson
journal =Notices of the American Mathematical Society
year = 2007
month = February
volume = 54
issue = 2
pages = pp.223–229
url = http://www.ams.org/notices/200702/comm-carleson.pdf
format = PDF
accessdate = 2008-01-16
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