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However, it does not presuppose these but is a very readable independent article, not based on a new reading of sources but a synthesis of earlier secondary literature (often not easily accessible).  The ``Danish period'' in Norwegian history covers the period 1380--1814, where Norway first shared the Danish royal house with diminishing independence, and was then fully incorporated in 1536. The article begins by a description of the political history of the period and of the history of educational institutions with a particular eye to mathematics education, and presents three teachers who can count as mathematicians: \\begin{itemize} \\item Ambrosius Rhode (1605--1696, born in Saxony), about whose mathematics little is known; \\item Diderich Christian Fester (1732--1811, Danish-born), self-taught and with widespread Enlightenment interests spanning moral as well as technical and natural matters; also writing on higher analysis, a topic he will have had no occasion to teach; \\item Christian Holberg Arentz (1736--1835, born in Norway); his mother was the niece, not (as here claimed) the grand-daughter of the writer and scholar Ludvig Holberg;  studied in G\u00f6ttingen and Leiden; independent discoverer of analogues to Cramer's methods for solving linear equation systems. \\end{itemize} Institutions of higher learning were few (and generally mediocre) during the period, in Denmark as well as Norway. 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