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Nationality
  
Finland

Name
  
Osmo Pekonen


Role
  
Mathematician

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Born
  
2 April 1960 (age 63) Mikkeli (
1960-04-02
)

Institutions
  
University of Jyvaskyla University of Helsinki

Alma mater
  
University of Jyvaskyla University of Lapland

Doctoral advisor
  
1st thesis: Jean-Pierre Bourguignon and Max Karoubi 2nd thesis: Seppo Aho and Juha Pentikainen

Books
  
Contributions to and a Survey on Moduli Spaces of Differential Geometric Structures with Applications in Physics

Education
  
University of Jyvaskyla, University of Lapland

Fields
  
Mathematics, History of science

Academic advisor
  
Jean-Pierre Bourguignon

Osmo Pekonen, PhD, D.Soc.Sc., (born 2 April 1960), is a Finnish mathematician, historian of science, and author. He is a docent at the University of Helsinki, at the University of Oulu, at the University of Lapland, and at the University of Jyväskylä. He is the Book Reviews section editor of The Mathematical Intelligencer. He is also the translator of the Beowulf epic into Finnish, together with Clive Tolley, and the author of several other books published in English, Finnish and French.

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