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Kurt Johansson (mathematician)

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Kurt Johansson (born 1960) is a Swedish mathematician, specializing in probability theory.

Johansson received his PhD in 1988 from Uppsala University under the supervision of Lennart Carleson[1] and is a professor in mathematics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.[2]

In 2000 Johansson was awarded the Rollo Davidson Prize. In 2002 he was an invited speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing[3] and was awarded the Göran Gustafsson Prize. In 2006 he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In 2012 he was elected a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Kurt Johansson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ "Kurt Johansson". kth.se.
  3. ^ Johansson, Kurt (2003). "Toeplitz determinants, random growth and determinant processes". Proceedings of the ICM, Beijing 2002. Vol. 3. pp. 53–62. arXiv:math/0304368.