Arild Stubhaug

Arild Stubhaug (born May 25, 1948 in Naustdal in the Sunnfjord) is a Norwegian author and mathematician.

Stubhaug studied mathematics, literature and the history of religion at the University of Bergen (graduation Cand.Mag.). He is known for the biographies of Niels Henrik Abel (on whom he has worked since 1988), Sophus Lie and Gösta Mittag-Leffler (the latter written during a stay at the Mittag-Leffler Institute ). In 2004 his biography of the poet Conrad Nicolai Schwach (1793-1860) appeared.

In 1970 his first collection of poems, Utkantane, was published and he also published prose.

In 2008 he received the Thorleif Dahl Prize of the Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature and in 1996 the Norwegian Brage Prize for his Abel biography. In 2001 he received the Norwegian Language Prize (Norsk språkpris) for his Lie biography and in 2010 he received the Swedish Dobloug Prize.

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A flashing lightning bolt - Niels Henrik Abel and his time, Springer 2003 (Original: Et foranskutt lyn. Nils Henrik Abel og hans tid, Aschehoug 1996)
Anything should be done. Conrad Nicolai Schwach, hans liv og erindringer, Aschehoug 2004
It was the boldness of my thoughts - the mathematician Sophus Lie , Springer Verlag 2003 (Original: Det var mine tankers djervhet, Aschehoug 2000)
Gösta Mittag-Leffler: A Man of Conviction, Springer 2010 (Original: Med viten og vilje, 2007)
Biography of Abel von Stubhaug on the part of the Abel Prize

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SURNAME	Stubhaug, Arild
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Norwegian writer and mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	May 25, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH	Naustdal