Editing Atle Selberg (section)

== Institute for Advanced Study ==
Selberg moved to the United States and worked as an associate professor at [[Syracuse University]] and later settled at the [[Institute for Advanced Study]] in [[Princeton, New Jersey]] in the 1950s, where he remained until his death.<ref name="IAS_profile">{{cite press release |last1=Ferrara |first1=Christine |title=Atle Selberg 1917–2007 |url=https://www.ias.edu/press-releases/atle-selberg-1917%E2%80%932007 |access-date=14 October 2020 |work=Institute for Advanced Study |date=August 9, 2007 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Maugh II |first1=Thomas H. |date=22 August 2007 |title=Atle Selberg, 90; Researcher 'Left a Profound Imprint on the World of Mathematics' |work=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-22-me-selberg22-story.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=14 October 2020}}</ref> During the 1950s he worked on introducing [[spectral theory]] into [[number theory]], culminating in his development of the [[Selberg trace formula]], the most famous and influential of his results. In its simplest form, this establishes a duality between the lengths of [[closed geodesic]]s on a [[compact Riemann surface]] and the [[eigenvalues]] of the [[Laplace-Beltrami operator|Laplacian]], which is analogous to the duality between the [[prime number]]s and the zeros of the zeta function.

He generally worked alone. His only coauthor was [[Sarvadaman Chowla]].<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1073/pnas.35.7.371 |title=On Epstein's Zeta Function (I) |date=1949 |last1=Chowla |first1=S. |last2=Selberg |first2=A. |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |volume=35 |issue=7 |pages=371–374 |doi-access=free |pmid=16588908 |pmc=1063041 |bibcode=1949PNAS...35..371C }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=Conrey, Brian|author-link=Brian Conrey|title=Math Encounters - Primes and Zeros: A Million-Dollar Mystery|journal=National Museum of Mathematics, YouTube|date=March 12, 2020|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS2V6FLFmxU&t=3510s}} (See 58:30 of 1:18:02 in video.)</ref>

Selberg was awarded the 1986 [[Wolf Prize in Mathematics]]. He was also awarded an honorary [[Abel Prize]] in 2002, its founding year, before the awarding of the regular prizes began.

Selberg received many distinctions for his work, in addition to the Fields Medal, the [[Wolf Prize]]<ref name="WolfPrize">{{cite web | title=Atle Selberg portrait on the occasion of receiving the Wolf Foundation Prize in Mathematics | website=albert.ias.edu | date=2023-03-16 | url=https://albert.ias.edu/entities/archivalmaterial/de32d916-004b-42a8-9167-383baf04b675 | access-date=2025-03-26}}</ref> and the [[Gunnerus Medal]]. He was elected to the [[Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters]], the [[Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters]] and the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]].

In 1972, he was awarded an [[honorary degree]], doctor philos. honoris causa, at the [[Norwegian Institute of Technology]], later part of [[Norwegian University of Science and Technology]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Honorary Doctors |url=http://www.ntnu.edu/phd/honorary-doctors |publisher=Norwegian University of Science and Technology}}</ref>

His first wife, Hedvig, died in 1995. With her, Selberg had two children: Ingrid Selberg (married to playwright [[Mustapha Matura]]) and Lars Selberg. In 2003 Atle Selberg married Betty Frances ("Mickey") Compton (born in 1929).

He died at home in [[Princeton, New Jersey]] on 6 August 2007 of heart failure. Upon his death he was survived by his widow, daughter, son, and four grandchildren.<ref>{{cite news |last=Pearce |first=Jeremy |date=17 August 2007 |title=Atle Selberg, 90, Lauded Mathematician, Dies |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/17/nyregion/17selberg.html |url-access=limited}}</ref>