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Gösta Mittag-Leffler

1846 - 1927

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gösta Mittag-Leffler is the 251st most popular mathematician (down from 172nd in 2019), the 203rd most popular biography from Sweden (down from 157th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Swedish Mathematician.

Gösta Mittag-Leffler is most famous for his work in the field of mathematics. He was a Swedish mathematician who discovered an important theorem in the field of Diophantine equations, which became known as the Mittag-Leffler theorem.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Gösta Mittag-Leffler ranks 251 out of 1,004. Before him are Abū Sahl al-Qūhī, Vergilius of Salzburg, Abū Ja'far al-Khāzin, Henri Cartan, John Charles Fields, and Anatoly Fomenko. After him are Charles-Eugène Delaunay, Paolo Ruffini, Theodorus of Cyrene, Constantin Carathéodory, Richard von Mises, and Ibn Yunus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1846, Gösta Mittag-Leffler ranks 25. Before him are Anna Dostoevskaya, Tokugawa Iemochi, Karl von Bülow, G. Stanley Hall, Franz Mehring, and Léon Bloy. After him are Oskar Backlund, Antonio Abetti, Mariam Baouardy, Naim Frashëri, Alexander von Kluck, and Vasily Dokuchaev. Among people deceased in 1927, Gösta Mittag-Leffler ranks 30. Before him are Enrique Simonet, Li Dazhao, Reginald Dyer, Max Hoffmann, Adolph Joffe, and Eugène Atget. After him are Saad Zaghloul, Vladimir Bekhterev, Jānis Čakste, Miguel, Duke of Braganza, Shote Galica, and Boris Kustodiev.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Gösta Mittag-Leffler ranks 203 out of 1,879. Before him are Nicolai Gedda (1925), Hans Blix (1928), Hugo Alfvén (1872), Gunilla Bielke (1568), Per Gessle (1959), and Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (1722). After him are Joe Hill (1879), Michael Nyqvist (1960), Carl Michael Bellman (1740), Oskar Backlund (1846), Inge the Younger (1100), and Birger, King of Sweden (1280).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Sweden

Among mathematicians born in Sweden, Gösta Mittag-Leffler ranks 2. Before him are Helge von Koch (1870). After him are Lennart Carleson (1928), Lars Hörmander (1931), Erik Ivar Fredholm (1866), Harald Cramér (1893), and Ivar Otto Bendixson (1861).

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