Thomas Joannes Stieltjes
Thomas Joannes Stieltjes was born on December 29, 1856. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Thomas Joannes Stieltjes
Thomas Joannes Stieltjes ( STEEL-chəz, Dutch: [ˈtoːmɑ ˈstiltɕəs]; 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.