Lennart Carleson

Lennart Axel Edvard Carleson is a Swedish mathematician known as a leader in harmonic analysis, whose most noted accomplishment is his proof of Lusin's conjecture. He was a student of Arne Beurling, received his PhD from Uppsala University in 1950 and did postdoctoral work at Harvard University, where he discussed Fourier series with Antoni Zygmund and Raphael Salem. He is a professor emeritus at Uppsala University, the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and the University of California, Los Angeles, and directed the Mittag-Leffler Institute from 1968 to 1984. He was awarded the Abel Prize in 2006.