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Pekonen, Osmo

LC control no.n 93052895
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Personal name headingPekonen, Osmo
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LocatedJyväskylä (Finland)
Birth date1960-04-02
Place of birthMikkeli (Finland)
AffiliationJyväskylän yliopisto Helsingin yliopisto
Académie des sciences, arts et belles-lettres de Caen European Academy of Arts, Sciences and Humanities
Profession or occupationMathematicians Translators Editors Authors Historians
Found inTopological and geometrical methods ... 1992: t.p. (Osmo Pekonen)
Beowulf. Finnish. Beowulf, 2007: title page (English translation, introduction and explanations: Osmo Pekonen)
Wikipedia, viewed November 18, 2019 (Osmo Pekonen, PhD, D.Soc.Sc., (born April 2, 1960 in Mikkeli, Finland), 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. Osmo Pekonen is a corresponding member of four French academies: Académie des sciences, arts et belles-lettres de Caen (founded in 1652), Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Besançon et de Franche-Comté (founded in 1752), Académie d'Orléans (founded in 1809) and Académie européenne des sciences, des arts et des lettres (founded in 1979).)
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmo_Pekonen>
Author's website, viewed November 18, 2019 (Ph.D., D.Soc.Sc. Osmo Pekonen is a Finnish author, historian of science, and mathematician based at the University of Jyväskylä. He is the Book Reviews section editor of The Mathematical Intelligencer; e-mail: osmo.pekonen@jyu.fi)
   <http://www.ad.jyu.fi/users/p/pekonen/>
Associated languagefin eng fre