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Jun 19, 1936 Kirkenes, Northern Norway, Norway 88 years old
Norwegian mathematician
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About Arnfinn Laudal
- Olav Arnfinn Laudal (born 19 June 1936) is a Norwegian mathematician. He was born in Kirkenes as the son of teachers Trygve Laudal (1896–1964) and Agnes Mønnesland (1898–1982).
- He finished his secondary education in 1954 in Mandal, and enrolled in the University of Oslo in the same year.
- He studied at École Normale Supérieure from 1957, but in 1958 he was back in Oslo and took the cand.real.
- degree.
- He was a research fellow at Columbia University and Institut Henri Poincaré between 1959 and 1962.
- He was appointed as lecturer at the University of Oslo in 1962, was promoted to docent in 1964 and was a professor from 1985 to 2003.
- His most notable book is 1979's Formal Moduli of Algebraic Structures.
- He was among the founders of the Abel Prize, and has been involved in the International Centre for Theoretical Physics.
- He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and has been a deputy member of Bærum municipal council for the Socialist Left Party.
