Mathematician:Lennart Axel Edvard Carleson

Mathematician

Swedish mathematician, known as a leader in the field of harmonic analysis.

Proved Lusin's Conjecture.

Wolf Prize

Lennart Axel Edvard Carleson was awarded a Wolf Prize for Mathematics in $\text {1992}$:

For his fundamental contributions to Fourier analysis, complex analysis, quasi-conformal mappings and dynamical systems.

Abel Prize

Lennart Axel Edvard Carleson was awarded an Abel Prize in $\text {2006}$:

For his profound and seminal contributions to harmonic analysis and the theory of smooth dynamical systems.

Nationality

Swedish

History

• Born: 18 March 1928 in Stockholm, Sweden

Theorems and Definitions

• Carleson-Jacobs Theorem (with Sigvard Jacobs)
• Carleson's Theorem

• Carleson Measure

Results named for Lennart Axel Edvard Carleson can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Lennart Axel Edvard Carleson can be found here.

Publications

• 1967: Selected Problems on Exceptional Sets
• 1968: Matematik för vår tid ("Mathematics for our time")

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Lennart Axel Edvard Carleson": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive