Editing Felix Iversen (section)

{{Short description|Finnish mathematician and pacifist}}
[[File:Felix-Iversen-1967.jpg|thumb|Iversen in 1951]]
'''Felix Christian Herbert Iversen''' (22 October 1887 – 31 July 1973) was a [[Finland|Finnish]] [[mathematician]]<ref name="hmf">{{citation|title=The History of Mathematics in Finland, 1828-1918|series=History of learning and science in Finland, 1828-1918, Societas Scientiarum Fennica|first=Gustav|last=Elfving|publisher=Frenckell|year=1981|pages=175–177}}.</ref> and a [[pacifist]].<ref>{{citation|contribution=Pacifism and conscientious objection in Finland, 1918–1945|title=Challenge to Mars: Essays on Pacifism from 1918 to 1945|first1=Thomas|last1=Hackman|first2=Katja|last2=Huumo|pages=41–59|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=05O59Ro-Oz4C&pg=PA41|editor1-first=Peter|editor1-last=Brock|editor2-first=Thomas Paul|editor2-last=Socknat|publisher=University of Toronto Press|year=1999|isbn= 9780802043719}}.</ref> He was a student of [[Ernst Lindelöf]],<ref>{{mathgenealogy|id=19457}}</ref> and later an associate professor of [[mathematics]] at the [[University]] of [[Helsinki]].<ref name="ape"/> Although he stopped performing serious research in mathematics around 1922, he continued working as a professor until his retirement in 1954 and published a textbook on mathematics in 1950.<ref name="hmf"/> The [[Soviet Union]] awarded Felix Iversen the [[Stalin Peace Prize]] in 1954.<ref name="ape">{{citation|title=The American Peoples Encyclopedia Yearbook: Events and Personalities|publisher=Spencer Press|year=1955|contribution=Stalin Peace Prizes|page=560}}.</ref>