10 Facts About Lennart Carleson

Lennart Axel Edvard Carleson was born on 18 March 1928 and is a Swedish mathematician, known as a leader in the field of harmonic analysis.

Lennart Carleson was a student of Arne Beurling and received his Ph.

Lennart Carleson did his post-doctoral work at Harvard University where he met and discussed Fourier series and their convergence with Antoni Zygmund and Raphael Salem who were there in 1950 and 1951.

Lennart Carleson's work has included the solution of some outstanding problems, using techniques from combinatorics and probability theory.

Lennart Carleson is known for the theory of Carleson measures.

Lennart Carleson was the co-editor along with Paul Malliavin, J Neuberger and J Wermer who collected and published the unpublished works of his mentor Arne Beurling in 1989.

Lennart Carleson was awarded the Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 1992, the Lomonosov Gold Medal in 2002, the Sylvester Medal in 2003, and the Abel Prize in 2006 for his profound and seminal contributions to harmonic analysis and the theory of smooth dynamical systems.

Lennart Carleson is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

Lennart Carleson became a Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society in 1993, Honorary member of the London Mathematical Society in 1981, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, French Academy of Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Lennart Carleson has honorary doctorates from many universities such as Helsinki, Paris and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.