John Erik Fornæss

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John Erik Fornæss

John Erik Fornæss (14 October 1946, Hamar, Norway) is a Norwegian-American mathematician. Fornæss received his master's degree in 1970 from the University of Oslo with thesis Uniform approximation on manifolds and his PhD in 1974 from the University of Washington under Edgar Lee Stout with thesis Embedding Strictly Pseudoconvex Domains in Convex Domains.[1] At Princeton University he became in 1974 an instructor, in 1976 an assistant professor, in 1978 an associate professor, and in 1981 a full professor. Since 1991 he has been a professor at the University of Michigan.

He does research on the theory of functions of several complex variables with emphasis on their geometry and dynamics. With Nessim Sibony he constructed a Fatou-Julia theory in two complex variables.

Fornæss is a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[2] In 2015 he was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[3]

Selected publications

Articles

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Books

  • with Berit Stensønes: Lectures on counterexamples in several complex variables, Mathematical Notes 33, Princeton University Press, 1987;[4] 2nd edition 2007
  • as editor: Dynamics of several complex variables, American Mathematical Society 1996
  • as editor: Recent developments in several complex variables, Princeton University Press 1981
  • as editor: Several complex variables (Proceedings Mittag-Leffler Institut 1987/88), Princeton University Press 1993

References

  1. John-Erik Fornæss at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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  3. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2016-04-27.
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