Thomas Joannes Stieltjes

Thomas Joannes Stieltjes
Born	(1856-12-29)29 December 1856 Zwolle, Netherlands
Died	31 December 1894(1894-12-31) (aged 38) Toulouse, France
Nationality	Dutch
Alma mater	École Normale Supérieure
Known for	Riemann–Stieltjes integral Lebesgue–Stieltjes integration Lebesgue-Stieltjes measure Stieltjes constants Stieltjes matrix Stieltjes transformation Stieltjes polynomials Laplace–Stieltjes transform Stieltjes–Wigert polynomials Chebyshev–Markov–Stieltjes inequalities Heine–Stieltjes polynomials Stieltjes moment problem Fourier-Stieltjes algebra Henstock-Kurzweil-Stieltjes integral Mertens conjecture Stieltjes–Osgood theorem
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	TU Delft University of Leiden
Doctoral advisor	Charles Hermite Jean Gaston Darboux

Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (/ˈstiːltʃəz/ STEEL-chəz,^[1] 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.