Leifur Ásgeirsson

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Leifur Ásgeirsson

Mathematics

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Leifur Ásgeirsson's Degrees

PhD Mathematics University of Copenhagen

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According to Wikipedia, Leifur Ásgeirsson was the first Icelandic mathematician to gain major international recognition. Education and career Ásgeirsson graduated in 1927 from Reykjavik Junior College and received his doctorate in 1933 from the University of Göttingen. His doctoral advisor was Richard Courant. From 1931 to 1943 Ásgeirrson was the head of a district school in Laugar, located in southwestern Iceland's Reykjadalur Valley east of Reykjavík. In 1936 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Oslo. At the University of Iceland he was appointed in 1943 a lecturer in mathematics and in 1945 a full professor of mathematics.

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Leifur Ásgeirsson's Published Works

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Some hints on huygens' principle and hadamard's conjecture (1956) (31)
On Cauchy's problem for linear partial differential equations of second order in four variables (1961) (1)
On iterated wave equations (1956) (0)

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