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Atle Selberg
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Langesund, Norway
Princeton, New Jersey, USA
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Atle Selberg's parents were Ole Michael Ludvigsen Selberg (1877-1950) and Anna Kristina Brigtsdatter Skeie (1874-1971).Atle selberg biography samples
Ole Selberg was a school teacher of mathematics who, at age 48, was awarded his doctorate from the University of Oslo for his thesis Ein Beitrag zur Theorie der algebraisch auflösbaren Gleichungen von PrimzahlgradⓉ. At the time Atle was born his father was senior master at the Middle School in Langesund.
However, shortly after Atle was born, his father moved to a school in Voss in Hordaland where he taught for three years. By 1921 he was teaching at Bergen County Middle School. Atle's mother, Anna Skeie, the daughter of the teacher Brigt Arnesen Skeie (1846-1939) and Brita Hansdatter