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Thomas Joannes Stieltjes

Dutch mathematician

Died when: 38 years 2 days (456 months)
Star Sign: Capricorn

 

Thomas Joannes Stieltjes

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.

The Thomas Stieltjes Institute for Mathematics at Leiden University, dissolved in 2011, was named after him, as is the Riemann–Stieltjes integral.


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