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He has received a Eugene R. Gannon Award, in which one person is selected annually worldwide from the fields of philosophy, mathematics, the arts and other humanities, and the natural sciences. He was selected to be part of Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers list and Prospect Magazine’s World Thinkers list <ref name=”1”></ref>.
He was born in March 10, 1973, in Helsingborg (Sweden). He grew up as an only child and didn’t particularly enjoyed school. He does not cite is his parents as influences in exploring large philosophical questions. His father worked for an investment bank, and his mother for a Swedish corporation <ref name=”3”></ref>. When he was a teenager he had what he describes as an “epiphany experience”. In 1989 he picked up at random an anthology book of 19th-century German philosophy, containing works by Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. After reading it, he experience a dramatic sense of the possibilities of learning and proceeded to educating himself quickly, reading feverishly, and painting and writing poetry in the spare time <ref name=”1”></ref> <ref name=”3”></ref>. He did not pursue these artistic endeavors, giving priority to his mathematical pursuits. He took degrees in philosophy and mathematical logic at Gothenburg University and completed his PhD at the London School of Economics <ref name=”3”></ref>.
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