Einar Steingrímsson
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD, 1992)
Einar Steingrímsson | |
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 Einar Steingrímsson in August 2017 | |
| Born | 20 July 1955 Reykjavík, Iceland |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania (BA and MA, 1987) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD, 1992) |
| Known for | Permutation patterns; Mahonian statistics; Vincular patterns |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Combinatorics |
| Institutions | Chalmers University of Technology Reykjavik University University of Strathclyde |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard P. Stanley |
| Doctoral students | Sergey Kitaev |
Einar Steingrímsson (born 20 July 1955[1]) is an Icelandic mathematician whose research lies in enumerative combinatorics, especially the study of permutation patterns and permutation statistics. He is a research professor (emeritus) in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Strathclyde.[2]
Einar grew up in Reykjavík and left secondary school early at age eighteen (the normal graduation age at the time was twenty), and trained as a ship builder at Slippstöðin in Akureyri.[2] After completing qualifying examinations independently, he enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated there as a BA and MA in mathematics in 1987, and as PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992 under the supervision of Richard P. Stanley; his dissertation was titled Permutation Statistics of Indexed and Poset Permutations.[3]
Career
Einar moved to Gothenburg, Sweden in 1990, while still a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in 1992, Einar was hired at Chalmers University of Technology as part of the joint mathematics institute with the University of Gothenburg.[4] In 2004 he became a professor of mathematics at Reykjavik University. From 2010 to 2021 he was a professor at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland.[2]
