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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Joannes Stieltjes has received more than 89,043 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Thomas Joannes Stieltjes is the 458th most popular mathematician (up from 517th in 2019), the 487th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 511th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Dutch Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Thomas Joannes Stieltjes ranks 458 out of 1,004. Before him are Francesco Maurolico, Yang Hui, William Thurston, Richard E. Bellman, Edmund Gunter, and Yuri Manin. After him are William Kingdon Clifford, Adriaan van Roomen, Ernst Schröder, Terence Tao, Yutaka Taniyama, and Frigyes Riesz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, Thomas Joannes Stieltjes ranks 69. Before him are Ernst Brenner, Alexander Izvolsky, Friedrich II, Duke of Anhalt, Rudolf Stammler, Carl Peters, and Eduardo Dato. After him are Semyon Alapin, Wojciech Kossak, Vasily Rozanov, Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, Robert Kajanus, and Giuseppe Martucci. Among people deceased in 1894, Thomas Joannes Stieltjes ranks 42. Before him are Theophan the Recluse, Amelia Bloomer, Auguste Vaillant, Władysław Czartoryski, Conrad of Parzham, and Walter Pater. After him are Pavel Yablochkov, Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz, Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Heinrich Karl Brugsch, Émile Henry, and Princess Amalie of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Thomas Joannes Stieltjes ranks 487 out of 1,646. Before him are Wim Ruska (1940), Adri van der Poel (1959), Pieter Pourbus (1523), Gerard Reve (1923), Countess Henriette Catherine of Nassau (1637), and Willem de Vlamingh (1640). After him are Barent Fabritius (1624), Maria van Oosterwijck (1630), Pierre Cuypers (1827), Henk ten Cate (1954), Reinhart Dozy (1820), and Joachim Wtewael (1566).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Netherlands

Among mathematicians born in Netherlands, Thomas Joannes Stieltjes ranks 7. Before him are Willebrord Snellius (1580), Willem de Sitter (1872), L. E. J. Brouwer (1881), Isaac Beeckman (1588), Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (1903), and Gemma Frisius (1508). After him are Hendrik C. van de Hulst (1918), Willem 's Gravesande (1688), Auguste Kerckhoffs (1835), Arend Heyting (1898), Diederik Korteweg (1848), and Jacobus Golius (1596).

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