Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Dutch mathematician and academic (born 1856)

Thomas Joannes Stieltjes

Dutch mathematician (1856-1894)

Thomas Joannes Stieltjes 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…