Ragni Piene
Ragni Piene is a Norwegian mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry, with particular interest in enumerative results and intersection theory.
Education and career
After a bachelor's degree from the University of Oslo in 1969 and a DEA from Université de Paris in 1970 Piene received a doctorate in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976, advised by Steven Kleiman. Her dissertation was titled Plücker Formulas.She was appointed professor at the University of Oslo in 1987.
Recognition
She was elected a member of the Norwegian [Academy of Science and Letters] in 1994,and in 2012 she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society and a member of the Academia Europaea. She is also one of the protagonists of the Women of mathematics exhibition.