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Åke Pleijel

Swedish mathematician (1913–1989) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Åke Vilhelm Carl Pleijel (10 August 1913 – 24 September 1989) was a Swedish mathematician.

Born(1913-08-10)10 August 1913
Stockholm, Sweden
Died24 September 1989(1989-09-24) (aged 76)
FieldsMathematics
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Åke Vilhelm Carl Pleijel
Born(1913-08-10)10 August 1913
Stockholm, Sweden
Died24 September 1989(1989-09-24) (aged 76)
EducationStockholm University
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
WorkplacesLund University
Uppsala University
Torsten Carleman
Doctoral students
Jaak Peetre
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He completed his PhD in mathematics at Stockholm University in 1940 (with Torsten Carleman as supervisor), and later became Professor of Mathematics at Uppsala University.

Åke Vilhelm Carl Pleijel published the paper Minakshisundaram & Pleijel (1949) in which the Minakshisundaram–Pleijel zeta function was introduced.

References

  • Minakshisundaram, S.; Pleijel, Å. (1949), "Some properties of the eigenfunctions of the Laplace-operator on Riemannian manifolds", Canadian Journal of Mathematics, 1 (3): 242–256, doi:10.4153/CJM-1949-021-5, ISSN 0008-414X, MR 0031145


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