Jens Erik Fenstad
Jens Erik Fenstad (born April 15, 1935 in Trondheim ; † April 13, 2020 ) was a Norwegian mathematician .
Fenstad graduated from Oslo University with a candidate degree in 1959. He was a student of Thoralf Skolem . He then did research in Oslo and at the University of California, Berkeley . From 1968 until his retirement in 2003 he was professor for mathematical logic in Oslo. From 1989 to 1992 he was Vice-Rector there.
He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Literature and the Academia Europaea and an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University . He was chairman of the Norwegian Mathematical Society, president of the Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science division of the International Association for the History and Theory of Science (1991-1995), one of the founders of the Abel Prize and editor of the journal Nordisk Matematisk Tidsskrift .
From 2004 he was chairman of the World Commission of Ethics (COMEST) of UNESCO . In 2011 he became a first class knight of the Order of Saint Olav .
In 1970 he published Skolem's Collected Works in Logic in Oslo. Fenstad died in April 2020, two days before his 85th birthday.
Fonts (selection)
- with Sergio Albeverio , Raphael Høegh-Krohn , Tom Lindstrøm: Nonstandard Methods in stochastic analysis and mathematical physics , Academic Press 1986, Dover 2009
- with Johan van Benthem , P.-K. Halvorsen, T. Langholm: Situations, Language and Logic , Reidel 1987
- General Recursion Theory: an axiomatic approach , Springer Verlag 1980
- Grammar, geometry and brain , CSLI Publications, Stanford 2010
Web links
- Homepage
- Literature by and about Jens Erik Fenstad in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fenstad, Jens Erik |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 15, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Trondheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 13, 2020 |