Roger Antonsen

Roger Antonsen

Associate Professor at University of Oslo

TED Speaker
Oslo, Norway
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About Roger

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Artist, Blogger, Educator/Teacher, Performer, Scientist, Writer/Editor

Bio

Roger is a logician, mathematician, computer scientist, researcher, inventor, author, lecturer, science communicator, and public speaker. You can find him at the University of Oslo, where he teaches Logical Methods as an Associate Professor at the Department of Informatics in the research group Logic and Intelligent Data (LogID).

I'm passionate about

Mathematics and philosophy!

An idea worth spreading

That metaphors, mathematics, and the imagination are ubiquitous and intertwined.

Areas of expertise

Computer Science, Logic, Mathematical Logic, Mathematics, Philosophy, Proof Theory

The TED story

I gave my first TEDx talk in Kraków, Poland, in 2013, and the second one in Oslo, Norway, in 2015.

Things you might not know

Drawing Celtic knots, maybe?