Ivo Lah

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Ivo Lah
Born	(1896-09-05)5 September 1896 Štrukljeva Vas, near Cerknica, Austria-Hungary
Died	23 March 1979(1979-03-23) (aged 82) Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
Alma mater	University of Zagreb
Known for	Lah numbers
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics, statistics

Ivo Lah (pronounced [ˈiːʋɔ ˈlax]; 5 September 1896 – 23 March 1979) was a Slovenian mathematician and actuary, best known for his discovery of the Lah numbers in 1955 and for the Lah identity. In the 1930s, Lah made the first tables about mortality rates in Slovenia.