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Gösta Mittag-Leffler
1846Mar, 16

Gösta Mittag-Leffler

Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician and academic (d. 1927)
Magnus Gustaf (Gösta) Mittag-Leffler (16 March 1846 – 7 July 1927) was a Swedish mathematician. His mathematical contributions are connected chiefly with the theory of functions, which today is called complex analysis.

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