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Lisa Lorentzen
Norwegian mathematician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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
With 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].
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Recognition
Lorentzen 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
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