Felix Iversen

Felix Christian Herbert Iversen (22 October 1887 - 31 July 1973) was a Finnish mathematician[1] and a pacifist.[2] He was a student of Ernst Lindelöf,[3] and later an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Helsinki.[4] Although he stopped performing serious research in mathematics around 1922, he continued working as a professor until his retirement in 1954 and published a textbook on mathematics in 1950.[1] The Soviet Union awarded Felix Iversen the Stalin Peace Prize in 1954.[4]

References
  1. Elfving, Gustav (1981), The History of Mathematics in Finland, 1828-1918, History of learning and science in Finland, 1828-1918, Societas Scientiarum Fennica, Frenckell, pp. 175–177.
  2. Hackman, Thomas; Huumo, Katja (1999), "Pacifism and conscientious objection in Finland, 1918–1945", in Brock, Peter; Socknat, Thomas Paul (eds.), Challenge to Mars: Essays on Pacifism from 1918 to 1945, University of Toronto Press, pp. 41–59, ISBN 9780802043719.
  3. Felix Iversen at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. "Stalin Peace Prizes", The American Peoples Encyclopedia Yearbook: Events and Personalities, Spencer Press, 1955, p. 560.


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