Lars-Erik Persson

Lars-Erik Persson (born 24 September 1944) 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. and "Convex Functions and Their Applications", with totally more than 3000 citations in Google Scholar.

Persson's research areas are the following nine ones: Fourier Analysis, Interpolation Theory, PDE:s and Homogenization Theory, Convexity Theory, Hardy-Type Inequalities, Continuous and Matricial Inequalities, Functional Analysis, Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Didactics. Persson has made major contributions in all mentioned areas.