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07 Jul 1927
Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler |
death Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler Died 7 Jul 1927 at age 81 (born 16 Mar 1846). Swedish mathematician who founded the international mathematical journal Acta Mathematica and whose contributions to mathematical research helped advance the Scandinavian school of mathematics. Mittag-Leffler made numerous contributions to mathematical analysis (concerned with limits and including calculus, analytic geometry and probability theory). He worked on the general theory of functions, concerning relationships between independent and dependent variables. His best known work concerned the analytic representation of a one-valued function, this work culminated in the Mittag-Leffler theorem. |
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