Thomas Joannes Stieltjes
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Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (Dutch: [ˈstilcəs], 29 December 1856 – 31 December 1894) was a Dutch mathematician. He was a pioneer in the field of moment problems and contributed to the study of continued fractions. The Thomas Stieltjes Institute for Mathematics at Leiden University, dissolved in 2011, was named after him, as is the Riemann–Stieltjes integral.
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Thomas Joannes Stieltjes | |
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Born | (1856-12-29)29 December 1856 Zwolle, Netherlands |
Died | 31 December 1894(1894-12-31) (aged 38) Toulouse, France |
Nationality | Dutch |
Alma mater | École Normale Supérieure |
Known for | Riemann–Stieltjes integral
Lebesgue–Stieltjes integration Chebyshev–Markov–Stieltjes inequalities Henstock-Kurzweil-Stieltjes integral Stieltjes–Osgood theorem |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | TU Delft, University of Leiden |
Doctoral advisor | Charles Hermite Jean Gaston Darboux |
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