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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, which today is called complex analysis. He founded the most important 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 111,873 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Gösta Mittag-Leffler is the 161st most popular mathematician (up from 190th in 2019), the 147th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 176th 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 161 out of 823. Before him are Zoia Ceaușescu, Gabriel Lamé, Paul Ehrenfest, Ernst Zermelo, Hermann of Reichenau, and Étienne Bézout. After him are Mary Jackson, Rafael Bombelli, Jost Bürgi, Jean Gaston Darboux, Wacław Sierpiński, and Zu Chongzhi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1846, Gösta Mittag-Leffler ranks 20. Before him are Émile Gallé, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, G. Stanley Hall, Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil, Eusebi Güell, and Vasily Dokuchaev. After him are Anna Dostoevskaya, Karl von Bülow, Léon Bloy, Mariam Baouardy, Alexander von Kluck, and Edward Charles Pickering. Among people deceased in 1927, Gösta Mittag-Leffler ranks 17. Before him are Andranik, Hugo Ball, Kang Youwei, Edward B. Titchener, Georg Brandes, and Giuseppe Moscati. After him are Jerome K. Jerome, Paul Sérusier, Adolph Joffe, Armand Guillaumin, Vladimir Bekhterev, and Eugène Atget.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Gösta Mittag-Leffler ranks 147 out of 1,612. Before him are Nathan Söderblom (1866), Ingegerd Olofsdotter of Sweden (1001), Zarah Leander (1907), Gustaf Dalén (1869), Gunnar Gren (1920), and Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson (1943). After him are Magnus II of Sweden (1130), Eric XI of Sweden (1216), Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld (1938), Ellen Key (1849), Sten Sture the Elder (1440), and Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden (1977).

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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), and Harald Cramér (1893).

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