Elling Holst
Elling Bolt Holst (born July 19, 1849 in Drammen , Buskerud , † September 2, 1915 in Bærum ) was a Norwegian mathematician. He was a professor at the University of Oslo , but in Norway he was less known for mathematics textbooks than for children's books.
Holst studied in Oslo, where he took his candidate exam with Sophus Lie in 1874 . He then spent two years at the Meteorological Institute before going on a scholarship to Felix Klein in Munich and to Paris, Copenhagen and England in 1879/80. In 1883 he received his doctorate (Et par syntetiske Methoder, især til Brug ved Studiet af metriske Egenskaber). He was a teacher in Oslo and after Sophus Lie left for Leipzig in 1886 he took over his geometry lectures in Oslo. At the same time he founded a mathematics seminar there (forerunner of the Norwegian Mathematical Association founded in 1918). In 1891 he became a professor at the Technical School in Oslo and from 1894 to 1912 he was a mathematics professor at the University of Oslo, where he was considered an excellent teacher.
He wrote children's books (such as Norsk billedbog for børn , 1881, 1890, a collection of nursery rhymes, some with their own melodies) and in 1902 published a commemorative volume to Niels Henrik Abel with Carl Størmer and Ludwig Sylow .
In 1881 he became a member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences . In 1902 he became a first class knight of the Order of Saint Olav . In 1879 he received the gold medal from the Norwegian Crown Prince for his treatise on Jean-Victor Poncelet's contribution to geometry (published in 1878).
He was interested in art, was friends with artists, collected art and books himself and was on the board of directors of the Nationalgalerie from 1897 to 1905.
He was married twice.
Axel Thue is one of his PhD students and he was the teacher of Kristian Birkeland , Richard Birkeland and Carl Størmer.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Holst, Elling |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Holst, Elling Bolt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 19, 1849 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Drammen |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 2, 1915 |
| Place of death | Bærum |