Berit Stensønes Explained

Berit Stensønes (19 February 1956 – 5 June 2022)[1] was a Norwegian mathematician specializing in complex analysis and complex dynamics and known for her work on several complex variables. She was a professor of mathematical sciences at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), and a professor emerita at the University of Michigan.

Education

Stensønes completed her Ph.D. in 1985 at Princeton University. Her dissertation, Envelopes of Holomorphy, was supervised by John Erik Fornæss.

Book

With John Erik Fornæss, Stensønes was an author of the book Lectures on Counterexamples in Several Complex Variables (AMS Chelsea Publishing, American Mathematical Society, 1987; reprinted 2007).

Recognition

Stensønes was a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.

Notes and References

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