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A GREAT MATHEMATICIAN.
A Reuters telegram from Stockholm announces the death of Professor Magnus Gustav Mittag-Leffler. As founder and editor-in-chief of the international journal, Acta Mathematica, Mittag-Leffler was probably the best-known mathematician in Europe, if not in the world. A theorem of functions which he propounded became known by his name, and he also worked on the theory of linear differential equations and their integration.
Born at Stockholm on March 16, 1846, the son of Rector J. O. Leffler and Gustava Mittag, he studied at Upsala, under Hermide in Paris, and under Weierstrass in Bertin. From 1872 to 1877 he was lecturer in mathematics at Upsala University, from 1877 to 1881 Professor of Mathematics at Helsingfors University, and from 1881 to 1911 Professor of Pure Mathematics at Stockholm University. Mittag-Leffler's mathematical library is one of extraordinary range. He and his wife (who died in 1921), Signe, daughter of General af Lindfors, of Finland, bequeathed by will all their property, including the library and their estate at Djursholm, in Sweden, for an International Mathematical Institution, which has already been established
The professor was the author of many dissertations in advanced analysis and contributed to Acta Mathematica. He was selected a foreign member of the Royal Society in 1896 and was an honorary or corresponding member of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, the London Mathematical Society, the Royal Institution, the Royal Irish Academy, the Institute of France, and most of the other principal academies and learned societies of Europe. He received honorary degrees from Oxford, Carlisle, Aberdeen, St. Andrews, Bologna, and Christiania (Oslo).
A GREAT MATHEMATICIAN.
A Reuters telegram from Stockholm announces the death of Professor Magnus Gustav Mittag-Leffler. As founder and editor-in-chief of the international journal, Acta Mathematica, Mittag-Leffler was probably the best-known mathematician in Europe, if not in the world. A theorem of functions which he propounded became known by his name, and he also worked on the theory of linear differential equations and their integration.
Born at Stockholm on March 16, 1846, the son of Rector J. O. Leffler and Gustava Mittag, he studied at Upsala, under Hermide in Paris, and under Weierstrass in Bertin. From 1872 to 1877 he was lecturer in mathematics at Upsala University, from 1877 to 1881 Professor of Mathematics at Helsingfors University, and from 1881 to 1911 Professor of Pure Mathematics at Stockholm University. Mittag-Leffler's mathematical library is one of extraordinary range. He and his wife (who died in 1921), Signe, daughter of General af Lindfors, of Finland, bequeathed by will all their property, including the library and their estate at Djursholm, in Sweden, for an International Mathematical Institution, which has already been established
The professor was the author of many dissertations in advanced analysis and contributed to Acta Mathematica. He was selected a foreign member of the Royal Society in 1896 and was an honorary or corresponding member of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, the London Mathematical Society, the Royal Institution, the Royal Irish Academy, the Institute of France, and most of the other principal academies and learned societies of Europe. He received honorary degrees from Oxford, Carlisle, Aberdeen, St. Andrews, Bologna, and Christiania (Oslo).
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