# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sigmund-selberg
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:44:15.350Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sigmund-selberg"
name: "Sigmund Selberg"
slug: "sigmund-selberg"
description: "Sigmund Selberg was a Norwegian mathematician. He was born in Langesund as the son of Ole Michael Ludvigsen Selberg and Anna Kristina Brigtsdatter Skeie. He was twin brother of Arne Selberg and brother of Henrik Selberg and Atle Selberg. He was appointed professor of mathematics at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim from 1947 to 1977. His works mainly focused on the distribution of prime numbers."
tagline: "Norwegian mathematician (1910-1994)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Norway"
  isoCode: "NO"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1910-08-11"
deathDate: "1994-04-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             15
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  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Selberg"
    title: "Sigmund Selberg"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Selberg"
    title: "Sigmund Selberg"
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  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Selberg"
    title: "Sigmund Selberg"
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  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Selberg"
    title: "Sigmund Selberg"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations