Gösta Mittag-Leffler
Gösta Mittag-Leffler | |
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Gösta Mittag-Leffler | |
| Born | 16 March 1846 |
| Died | 7 July 1927 (aged 81) |
| Citizenship | Swedish |
| Alma mater | Uppsala University (PhD, 1872) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Thesis | Om skiljandet af rötterna till en synektisk funktion af en variabel (1872) |
| Doctoral advisor | Göran Dillner |
| Doctoral students | Ivar Fredholm Hjalmar Mellin Gustav Cassel |
Magnus Gustaf "Gösta" Mittag-Leffler (16 March 1846 – 7 July 1927) was a Swedish mathematician. His mathematical contributions are connected chiefly with the theory of functions that today is called complex analysis. He founded the prestigious mathematical periodical Acta Mathematica and was its editor for 40 years. He took great trouble in procuring Sofia Kovalevskaya a position of full professor of mathematics in Stockholm University. Mittag-Leffler was also responsible for inducing the Nobel committee to recognize and award Marie Curie as an equal contributor to the discoveries "on the radiation phenomena" along with her husband Pierre Curie.
After World War I, Mittag-Leffler gave his estate in Djursholm and its remarkable library of books on mathematics to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; it became the foundation of the modern Mittag-Leffler Institute.