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Thomas Joannes Stieltjes

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Mathematician (1856-1894)

FranceAcademicsLived 1856 to 1894 · aged 38
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Thomas Joannes Stieltjes 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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1892Petit d'Ormoy, Carriere, Thebault Award
1884Honorary doctor of Leiden University

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France
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Academics
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Academic
Status
deceased
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Lived 1856 to 1894 · aged 38
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