Lars-Erik Persson

Lars-Erik Persson is a Swedish/Norwegian professor in mathematics. His merits, background and personality have been described in many ways both in newspapers and scientific Journals.
Persson was born in the small village Svanabyn in north Sweden. He had a special “class travel” from a poor farmer family to well established mathematician. He took his PhD in mathematics at Umeå University 1974. After that he worked as Associate Professor at Umeå University and Luleå University of Technology. From 1992 Persson has been employed as a Professor in one or other form at one or more of the following universities: UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Luleå University of Technology, Uppsala University, Karlstad University and Lund University. In 2005 Persson got a title of honorary Professor at Eurasian National University in Kazakhstan.
Persson has been collaborating with many researchers around the world. In particular, he has written joint papers/books with around 170 mathematicians from 42 different countries, having around 350 scientific publications, with 10 scientific books among them. He is also a coauthor of 5 teaching books and Editor of 7 books.