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Thomas Joannes Stieltjes

1856 - 1894

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Thomas Joannes Stieltjes ( STEEL-chəz, Dutch: [ˈtoːmɑ ˈstiltɕəs]; 29 December 1856 – 31 December 1894) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Joannes Stieltjes is the 514th most popular mathematician (down from 458th in 2019), the 489th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 487th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Dutch Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Thomas Joannes Stieltjes ranks 514 out of 1,004. Before him are Henryk Zygalski, Emil Leon Post, Georgy Voronoy, Theodor Kaluza, Ion Ghica, and Richard Hamming. After him are Hilda Geiringer, Hypsicles, Pierre François Verhulst, Hendrik C. van de Hulst, Viktor Sadovnichiy, and Endre Szemerédi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, Thomas Joannes Stieltjes ranks 70. Before him are Friedrich II, Duke of Anhalt, Yu Kil-chun, Semyon Alapin, Felix Mottl, Rudolf Stammler, and Vasily Rozanov. After him are Princess Isabella of Croÿ, Carl Axel Magnus Lindman, Willem Kes, Franz Roubaud, Giuseppe Martucci, and Günther Beck von Mannagetta und Lerchenau. Among people deceased in 1894, Thomas Joannes Stieltjes ranks 42. Before him are Philipp Spitta, Władysław Czartoryski, Heinrich Hoffmann, Theophan the Recluse, Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Pavel Yablochkov. After him are Maria Deraismes, Walter Pater, Auguste Vaillant, Marietta Alboni, Heinrich Karl Brugsch, and Franjo Rački.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Thomas Joannes Stieltjes ranks 489 out of 1,646. Before him are Willem Drost (1633), Pierre Cuypers (1827), Junkie XL (1967), Willem de Vlamingh (1640), Wiel Coerver (1924), and Gerard Reve (1923). After him are Hendrik C. van de Hulst (1918), Rudi Carrell (1934), Johannes van den Bosch (1780), Virgil van Dijk (1991), Gijs van Lennep (1942), and Barent Fabritius (1624).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Netherlands

Among mathematicians born in Netherlands, Thomas Joannes Stieltjes ranks 8. Before him are Willebrord Snellius (1580), Gemma Frisius (1508), Isaac Beeckman (1588), Willem de Sitter (1872), Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (1903), and Auguste Kerckhoffs (1835). After him are Hendrik C. van de Hulst (1918), Willem 's Gravesande (1688), Arend Heyting (1898), Jacobus Golius (1596), Gustav de Vries (1866), and Diederik Korteweg (1848).

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