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Thomas Joannes Stieltjes

Thomas Joannes Stieltjes
Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Dutch-French mathematician and academic (d. 1894)

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.

29 December 1856

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