# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/erik-alfsen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:06:04.339Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/erik-alfsen"
name: "Erik Alfsen"
slug: "erik-alfsen"
description: "Erik Magnus Alfsen was a Norwegian mathematician. He is the author of Compact Convex Sets and Boundary Integrals, published in 1971. He was a board member of the Norwegian Research Council for Science and the Humanities (NAVF) for two years, and has also been involved in Nei til Atomvåpen and the Pugwash Conferences. He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters and the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters."
tagline: "Norwegian mathematician (1930–2019)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "NO"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1930-05-13"
deathDate: "2019-11-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             11.25
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  country:  null
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    title: "Էրիկ Ալֆսեն"
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    title: "اريك الفسين"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump