Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Thomas Joannes Stieltjes

mathematician

Date of Birth: 29-Dec-1856

Place of Birth: Zwolle, Overijssel, Netherlands

Date of Death: 31-Dec-1894

Profession: mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: France, Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (Dutch: ['stilc?s], 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.