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Helge Holden

Norwegian mathematician

Helge Holden (born 28 September 1956) is a Norwegian mathematician working in the field of differential equations and mathematical physics. He was Praeses of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters from 2014 to 2016.²

From Wikipedia’s article on Helge Holden (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born Sep 28, 1956.¹

About

He earned the dr.philos. degree at the University of Oslo in 1985. The title of his dissertation with Raphael Høegh-Krohn was Point Interactions and the Short-Range Expansion. A Solvable Model in Quantum Mechanics and Its Approximation. He was appointed professor at the Norwegian Institute of Technology (now: the Norwegian University of Science and Technology ) in 1991. His research interests are Differential equations, mathematical physics (in particular hyperbolic conservation laws and completely integrable systems), Stochastic analysis, and flow in porous media.

In 2014 he became Chairman of the board of the Abel Prize fund.

He was elected Secretary General of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) for the period 2019–2022.

From Wikipedia’s article on Helge Holden, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.²

Companies

European Mathematical SocietyChair 2026 to now¹⁶

Early life and education

Date not recordedUniversity of Oslo³

Career

Occupation: university teacher, mathematician.⁷

Since 2026President of the European Mathematical Society⁵
Since 2026Chair, European Mathematical Society⁶
Date not recordedWorked at Norwegian University of Science and Technology⁴

Personal life

BornSep 28, 1956, Oslo⁸
CitizenshipNorway⁹
ResidenceTrondheim¹⁰

Awards

2024Knight First Class of the Order of St. Olav‎^{11 14}
2017Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics^{11 13}
2014Fellow of the American Mathematical Society^{11 12}

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WikidataHelge Holden: Official website, on Wikidata
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Wikimedia CommonsHelge Holden photo by photo: Thor Nielsen/NTNU, CC BY 2.0