Lennart Carleson#
| Membership Number: | 1310 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 1993 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.math.ucla.edu/people/pages/carleson.shtml |
Present and Previous Positions
- Professor emeritus at Uppsala University, the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and the University of California, Los Angeles
- 1978 - 1982 President of the International Mathematical Union
- 1968 - 1984 Director of the Mittag-Leffler Institute in Djursholm
- 1955 - 1993 Professor at Uppsala University
- 1950 Ph.D. from Uppsala University
Fields of Scholarship
- Harmonic analysis
- Theory of Carleson measures
- Theory of dynamical systems
Honours and Awards
- 2006 Abel Prize
- 2003 Sylvester Medal
- 2002 Lomonosov Gold Medal
- 1992 Wolf Prize
- 1989 Honorary doctorate by the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
- 1988 Honorary doctorate by the University of Paris
- 1984 AMS Steele Prize
- 1982 Honorary doctorate by the University of Helsinki
