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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gösta Mittag-Leffler has received more than 123,689 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Gösta Mittag-Leffler is the 172nd most popular mathematician (down from 161st in 2019), the 157th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 146th in 2019) and the 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 172 out of 1,004. Before him are George Pólya, Felix Hausdorff, René Thom, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, Aleksandr Lyapunov, and Camille Jordan. After him are Marcel Grossmann, Jost Bürgi, Jean-Pierre Serre, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, Édouard Lucas, and Conon of Samos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1846, Gösta Mittag-Leffler ranks 22. Before him are Eusebi Güell, Nectarios of Aegina, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, Anna Dostoevskaya, Vasily Dokuchaev, and Émile Gallé. After him are Léon Bloy, Karl von Bülow, G. Stanley Hall, Franz Mehring, Mariam Baouardy, and Tokugawa Iemochi. Among people deceased in 1927, Gösta Mittag-Leffler ranks 20. Before him are Georg Brandes, Jerome K. Jerome, Giuseppe Moscati, Yusef of Morocco, Paul Sérusier, and Armand Guillaumin. After him are Edward B. Titchener, Max Hoffmann, Li Dazhao, Adolph Joffe, Enrique Simonet, and Saad Zaghloul.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Gösta Mittag-Leffler ranks 157 out of 1,879. Before him are Halsten Stenkilsson (1050), Franz Berwald (1796), Inger Nilsson (1959), Emund the Old (1030), Ulf Kristersson (1963), and Tomas Lindahl (1938). After him are Carl Peter Thunberg (1743), Oscar Montelius (1843), Gustaf de Laval (1845), Johan Gottlieb Gahn (1745), Ellen Key (1849), and John Bauer (1882).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Sweden

Among mathematicians born in Sweden, Gösta Mittag-Leffler ranks 1. After him are Helge von Koch (1870), Lennart Carleson (1928), Lars Hörmander (1931), Erik Ivar Fredholm (1866), Harald Cramér (1893), and Ivar Otto Bendixson (1861).

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