Norwegian mathematician
Lisa Lorentzen (born 1943, 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).
Books
With Haakon Waadeland [no], 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).
She is also the author of two textbooks in Norwegian: Kalkulus for ingeniører and Hva er matematikk [no] , and co-author with Arne Hole and Tom Louis Lindstrøm of Kalkulus med én og flere variable .
Recognition
Lorentzen is a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters. She was the 1986 winner of the academic prize of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.
References
- "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