Lisa Lorentzen

Lisa Lorentzen (also published as Lisa Jacobsen) is a Norwegian mathematician known for her work on continued fractions. She is a professor emerita in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).^[1]

Books

With Haakon Waadeland [no], Lorentzen is the author of the book Continued Fractions with Applications (Studies in Computational Mathematics 3, North-Holland, 1992; 2nd ed., Atlantis Studies in Mathematics for Engineering and Science, Springer, 2008).^[2]

She is also the author of two textbooks in Norwegian: Kalkulus for ingeniører [Calculus for engineers] and Hva er matematikk [no] [What is mathematics?],^[3][4] and co-author with Arne Hole and Tom Louis Lindstrøm of Kalkulus med én og flere variable [Calculus with single and multiple variables].

Recognition

Lorentzen is a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.^[5] She was the 1986 winner of the academic prize of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.^[6]

References

1. "Lisa Lorentzen", Employee profile, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, retrieved 2020-03-23
2. Reviews of Continued Fractions with Applications:
   • de Bruin, M. G., zbMATH, Zbl 0782.40001{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Wynn, Peter, zbMATH, Zbl 1180.40001{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Njåstad, Olav (1993), Mathematical Reviews, MR 1172520{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
3. To korte og en lang: Tre bøker om hva matematikk er (in Norwegian), University of Oslo Mathematical Institute, 24 May 2013, retrieved 2020-03-23
4. Mikkelsen, Solveig (28 November 2012), "Aktuell med bok om matematikk: Skjønnheten i å skjønne", Universitetsavisa, retrieved 2020-03-23
5. Gruppe I: Matmatikk, Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, retrieved 2020-03-23
6. (in Norwegian), Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, archived from the original on 2014-12-29