Biography:Kurt Johansson (mathematician)

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Short description: Swedish mathematician

Kurt Johansson (born 1960) is a Swedish mathematician, specializing in probability theory.

Johansson received his PhD in 1988 from Uppsala University under the supervision of Lennart Carleson[1][2] and is a professor in mathematics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.[3]

In 2000 Johansson was awarded the Rollo Davidson Prize. In 2002 he was an invited speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing[4] and was awarded the Göran Gustafsson Prize. In 2006 he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In 2012 he was elected a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Selected publications

References

  1. Johansson, Kurt (1988). On Szegö's asymptotic formula for Toeplitz determinants and generalizations. http://libris.kb.se/bib/729256. 
  2. Kurt Johansson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. "Kurt Johansson". https://people.kth.se/~kurtj/. 
  4. Johansson, Kurt (2003). "Toeplitz determinants, random growth and determinant processes". Proceedings of the ICM, Beijing 2002. 3. pp. 53–62.