Atle Selberg

Atle Selberg
Born(1917-06-14)14 June 1917
Langesund, Norway
Died6 August 2007(2007-08-06) (aged 90)
Princeton, New Jersey, United States
NationalityNorwegian
Alma materUniversity of Oslo
Known forCritical line theorem
Local rigidity
Parity problem
Weakly symmetric space
Chowla–Selberg formula
Maass–Selberg relations
Rankin–Selberg method
Selberg class
Selberg's conjecture
Selberg's identity
Selberg integral
Selberg trace formula
Selberg zeta function
Selberg sieve
Spouse(s)Hedvig Liebermann (m. 1947 - died 1995)
Betty Frances ("Mickey") Compton (m. 2003 - 2007)
AwardsAbel Prize (honorary) (2002)
Fields Medal (1950)
Wolf Prize (1986)
Gunnerus Medal (2002)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Institutions

Atle Selberg (14 June 1917 – 6 August 2007) was a Norwegian mathematician known for his work in analytic number theory and the theory of automorphic forms, and in particular for bringing them into relation with spectral theory. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1950 and an honorary Abel Prize in 2002.

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