Arvid Brodersen

Arvid Brodersen (September 22, 1904 – July 2, 1996) was a Norwegian sociologist, a UNESCO leader, and later a professor at the New School for Social Research in New York City.

Arvid Brodersen
Born(1904-09-22)22 September 1904
Trondheim, Norway
Died2 July 1996(1996-07-02) (aged 91)
NationalityNorwegian
Occupationsociologist

Born in Trondheim, Brodersen studied sociology at the University of Berlin.[1] During World War II he was a member of the Norwegian resistance movement, and is known for establishing a communication channel to central Wehrmacht officers.[2][3][4] He died in Oslo.[1]

Selected works
  • Mellom frontene (1979)
gollark: No, I mean it could give one or the other a non-population-related advantage due to differences in the geometry of some kind.
gollark: I guess it's possible that even one which doesn't know about parties might accidentally be biased due to (hypothetically, I don't know if this is true) one party being popular in low-density areas and the other in high-density, or really any other difference in locations.
gollark: You don't actually need simple shapes very badly as long as you have an algorithm which is not likely to be biased.
gollark: Okay, rearrange the states so they're square.
gollark: A simple if slightly inaccurate way would be some kind of binary space partitioning thing, where (pretending the US is a perfect square) you just repeatedly divide it in half (alternatingly vertically/horizontally), but stop dividing a particular subregion when population goes below some target number.

References
  1. Norsk biografisk leksikon.
  2. Henriksen, Petter (ed.). "Arvid Brodersen". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 22 January 2010.
  3. Kalleberg, Ragnvald. "Arvid Brodersen". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 22 January 2010.
  4. Dahl, Hans Fredrik (1995). "Brodersen, Arvid". In Dahl; Hjeltnes; Nøkleby; Ringdal; Sørensen (eds.). Norsk krigsleksikon 1940-45 (in Norwegian). Oslo: Cappelen. pp. 54–55. ISBN 82-02-14138-9. Archived from the original on 4 January 2010. Retrieved 22 January 2010.


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