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Thomas Joannes Stieltjes

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Observatory, van de Sande-Bakhuyzen, responded quickly to Stieltjes' request on 1 January 1883 to stop his observational work to allow him to work more on mathematical topics. In 1883, he also married Elizabeth Intveld in May. She also encouraged him to move from astronomy to mathematics. And in
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in mathematics to a student of any Dutch university. All mathematics institutes and departments of Dutch universities are asked for an overview of the PhDs that have taken place in the academic year. The list thus obtained forms the list of candidates for the prize. The award consists of a
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in 1893. In 1884 the University of Leiden awarded him an honorary doctorate, and in 1885 he was elected to membership in the Royal Academy of Sciences of Amsterdam.
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on 29 December 1856. His father (who had the same first names) was a civil engineer and politician. Stieltjes Sr. was responsible for the construction of various
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Correspondance d'Hermite et de Stieltjes. Publiée par les soins de B. Baillaud [et] H. Bouget, avec une préf. de Émile Picard
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In honour of Stieltjes, since 1996, the Stieltjes Prize (Stieltjesprijs) has been awarded annually for the best
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in 1873. Instead of attending lectures, he spent his student years reading the works of
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Stieltjes' work on continued fractions earned him the Ormoy Prize (Prix Ormoy) of the
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Hermite, Charles; Baillaud, Benjamin; Bourget, H.; Stieltjes, Thomas Jan (1905).
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which lasted for the rest of his life. He originally wrote to Hermite concerning
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for F.J. van den Berg. From then until December of that year, he lectured on
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His work is also seen as important as a first step towards the theory of
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arranged for an honorary doctorate to be granted to Stieltjes by
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Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Annales de la faculté des sciences de Toulouse: Mathématiques
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Thomas Stieltjes Institute for Mathematics; Stieltjes Prize
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Encyclopaedia.com's Biography on Thomas Joannes Stieltjes
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the father of the analytic theory of continued fractions
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Soon afterwards, Stieltjes began a correspondence with
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Academic staff of the Delft University of Technology
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Stieltjes

Zwolle
Netherlands
Toulouse
France
École Normale Supérieure
Riemann–Stieltjes integral
Lebesgue–Stieltjes integration
Lebesgue-Stieltjes measure
Stieltjes constants
Stieltjes matrix
Stieltjes transformation
Stieltjes polynomials
Laplace–Stieltjes transform
Stieltjes–Wigert polynomials
Chebyshev–Markov–Stieltjes inequalities
Heine–Stieltjes polynomials
Stieltjes moment problem
Fourier-Stieltjes algebra
Henstock-Kurzweil-Stieltjes integral
Mertens conjecture
Stieltjes–Osgood theorem
Mathematics
TU Delft
University of Leiden
Doctoral advisor
Charles Hermite
Jean Gaston Darboux
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