Flemming Topsøe
Flemming Topsøe (born 25 August 1938 in Aarhus, Denmark) is a Danish mathematician, mathematics docent at University of Copenhagen where he has worked since 1964 and author of several mathematical science works, among them works about analysis, probability theory and information theory. He is older brother of the engineer Henrik Topsøe (born 1944), son of the engineer Haldor Topsøe (1913–2013) and great-grandson of the crystallographer and chemist Haldor Topsøe (1842–1935).
Topsøe took Magisterkonferens in mathematics at Aarhus University in 1962 and doctorate in 1971 at University of Copenhagen with the thesis Topology and Measure. He was leader of the Danish Mathematical Society 1978–1982 and dynamic leader of Euromath 1983–1998, a great project about expansion of Internet-based services to mathematics societies in Europe and Russia. He received a Hlavka memorial medal in 1992 and a B. Bolzano honoary medal in 2006 of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences for his mathematical contributions.