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On the Erdős-Szekeres convex polygon problem / Andreas Holmsen (KAIST) / 2016-05-27
Andreas Holmsen (5 June 1906 – 20 February 1989) was a Norwegian historian. author and educator. He is most commonly associated with his textbook, Norges historie fra de eldste tider til 1660, which is a standard introduction in the early Norwegian history.
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- On the Erds Szekeres convex polygon problem Andreas Holmsen KAIST 2016 05 27
- 2019 03 12 Andreas Holmsen Large cliques in hypergraphs with forbidden substructures
- Personal life
- Career
- Related reading
- References
2019-03-12 Andreas Holmsen, Large cliques in hypergraphs with forbidden substructures
Personal life
He was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway. He was a son of head teacher Andreas Holmsen (1857–1926) and Dagmar Berger (1865–1948). From 1933 he was married to Solveig Ingebrethsen, a daughter of newspaper editor Ingolf Ingebrethsen and sister of Arne Jostein Ingebrethsen, but the marriage was dissolved. In 1961 he married ethnologist. Rigmor Frimannslund (1911-2006). They resided at Vøyenenga. He died in February 1989 in Bærum.
Career
Holmsen graduated from the University of Oslo (Cand. Philol. 1931). Andreas Holmsen was a consultant in history in the Institute of Economics at the University of Oslo from 1934 to 1940. He was a professor of history at the university from 1955 to 1975. During the course of his career, Holmsen wrote several books and numerous articles in addition to delivering a number of scientific papers. His work principally concerned Norwegian socioeconomic and social history.