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Thomas Joannes Stieltjes

1856 - 1894

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Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (Dutch: [ˈstilcəs], 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Joannes Stieltjes has received more than 81,823 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Thomas Joannes Stieltjes is the 519th most popular mathematician (down from 496th in 2019), the 512th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 464th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Dutch Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Thomas Joannes Stieltjes ranks 519 out of 823Before him are Benedetto Castelli, G. I. Taylor, Campanus of Novara, Martin Ohm, Egon Pearson, and Ahmad ibn Yusuf. After him are Abraham Robinson, Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, Terence Tao, Gerd Faltings, Maria Angela Ardinghelli, and Carl Adam Petri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, Thomas Joannes Stieltjes ranks 76Before him are Yu Kil-chun, Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, Vasily Rozanov, Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, Elbert Hubbard, and Wojciech Kossak. After him are Rudolf Stammler, Apollinary Vasnetsov, André Gedalge, Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo, Carl Axel Magnus Lindman, and Franz Roubaud. Among people deceased in 1894, Thomas Joannes Stieltjes ranks 53Before him are Charles Laval, Amelia Bloomer, Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher, Rafael Núñez, Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard, and Franjo Rački. After him are Maria Deraismes, Heinrich Karl Brugsch, Karl von Blaas, Caterina Volpicelli, Edmond Frémy, and Boston Corbett.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Thomas Joannes Stieltjes ranks 512 out of 1,427Before him are Tim Krabbé (1943), Corine Rottschäfer (1938), Jelle Zijlstra (1918), Roy Makaay (1975), Gisbertus Voetius (1589), and Jan Janssonius (1588). After him are Gerald Vanenburg (1964), Willem Roelofs (1822), Johannes Meursius (1579), Barend Biesheuvel (1920), Jetty Paerl (1921), and Bernardus Johannes Alfrink (1900).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Netherlands

Among mathematicians born in Netherlands, Thomas Joannes Stieltjes ranks 10Before him are Isaac Beeckman (1588), Gemma Frisius (1508), Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (1903), Hendrik C. van de Hulst (1918), Auguste Kerckhoffs (1835), and Willem 's Gravesande (1688). After him are Arend Heyting (1898), Diederik Korteweg (1848), and Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (1918).