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Jan-Magnus Økland
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Projective geometry enthusiast
new trolley problem just dropped: Elon vs. 10^58 randomly chosen people. let's see what Grok has to say
November 24, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Master’s in Bergen and outside algebraic geometry, there’s also a Vienna lineage (Friehsach, Mühlwenzel, Petzval…Hurewicz…)-Per Hag. Kari Hag has a new progenitor as well (Pollard)
September 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Mathematicians outside algebraic geometry, but still tied to Bergen’s pure mathematics, lead to lineages (Ørsted-…Lie…Thue)-Skolem/Ljunggren-Selmer. Tverberg(-Holmsen), (Fok…)-Markina, (Leibniz…Chebyshev…)-Vasiljev, (Leibniz-…Jacobi…)-Munthe-Kaas, Dundas, Brun, Schlichtkrull
September 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Dan Laksov’s getting a master’s in Bergen and becoming a professor elsewhere doesn’t add a progenitor. Ranestad may have moved to Oslo before the master’s. Holme’s offspring Ådlandsvik/Dale have citations but didn’t carry on with algebraic geometry that I know
September 3, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Dan Laksov came back to Bergen from time to time, while his mother lived and when he got his honorary doctorate. He would say stuff like how he admired the not much older Helge Tverberg while doing his master’s there. The thesis was called «Lineær rekursjon», so maybe Dan also had Selmer as advisor?
September 1, 2025 at 7:43 PM
«but more importantly because we shall give a more up-to-date version below. From the following presentation of quadrics on the one hand and the correlations and collineations on the other, it will become apparent that the two theories are completely analogous.»
September 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM
«41. D. Laksov, Notes on the evolution of complete correlations, Enumerative and Classical Algebraic Geometry (Proc., Nice, 1981), Progress in Math., vol. 24, Birkhäuser, 1982,
pp. 107-132.»
September 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
«We shall not at this point enter into the definitions and properties of correlative figures, partly because we have given elsewhere [41] a geometric description of correlations and collineations similar to that given for conics above,»
September 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Apropos of
This look really interesting! If you haven’t done so recently check out the author’s website, full of interesting material.

https://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~jjelisiejew/
Joachim Jelisiejew
The Iarrobino scheme: a self-dual analogue of the Hilbert scheme of points
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21705
September 1, 2025 at 4:34 PM
«The theory was extended to dimension three and partly four by Hirst (32, 36], and by Visalli (63, 65). Again, mainly through works of Schubert (49, 51], G. de Prete (20], and G. Z. Giambelli [27), the theory was extended to higher dimensions.»
September 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Intrigued by «the variety of completed quadrics, which plays for the Iarrobino scheme a role similar to that played by the Grassmannian for the Quot scheme» Particularly like the citing of Dan Laksov; Completed quadrics and linear maps. Interesting times, learned about Tevelev degrees just last week
September 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The tangent cone method: y-x^2=0 around (x,y)=(t,t^2) is (expand y+t^2-(x+t)^2): (y-t^2)-(x-t)^2-2t(x-t)=0 and take linear terms in x,y: (y-t^2)-2t(x-t)=0, so the slope is 2t at x=t. Works when we can parametrize an algebraic curve.
May 12, 2025 at 7:44 AM
«But I have a way to go. People excite me, they turn me on. A new person can trigger things in you that you didn't even know you had. If it's musical that's even better. The unknown turns me on.»
January 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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