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Encyclopedia > Thomas Joannes Stieltjes

Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (December 29, 1856 – December 31, 1894) was a Dutch mathematician. He was born in Zwolle and died in Toulouse, France. He was a pioneer in the field of moment problems and contribued to the study of continued fractions.


The Thomas Stieltjes Institute for Mathematics at the University of Leiden is named after him, as is the Riemann-Stieltjes integral.


See also

Lebesgue-Stieltjes integral, Laplace-Stieltjes transform, Riemann-Stieltjes integral, Stieltjes integral.


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Thomas Stieltjes Institute for Mathematics - Life of Stieltjes (893 words)
Thomas Joannes Stieltjes was born on December 29, 1856 in Zwolle, capital of the province Overijssel, The Netherlands.
T.J. Stieltjes, a former employee of the Leiden Observatory.
In 1889, Stieltjes was appointed professor of differential and integral calculus at the Faculty of Science of Toulouse.
Thomas Joannes Stieltjes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (513 words)
Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (December 29, 1856 - December 31, 1894) was a Dutch mathematician.
Stieltjes was born in Zwolle on December 29, 1856.
Stieltjes worked on almost all branches of analysis, continued fractions and number theory, and for his work, he is sometimes called "the father of the analytic theory of continued fractions".
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