Åke Pleijel
Åke Pleijel (10 August 1913 – 24 September 1989) was a Swedish mathematician.
Åke Pleijel | |
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Born | Stockholm | 10 August 1913
Died | 24 September 1989 76) | (aged
Nationality | Swedish |
Alma mater | Stockholm University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Lund University Uppsala University |
Doctoral advisor | Torsten Carleman |
He completed his Ph.D. in mathematics at Stockholm University in 1940 (with Torsten Carleman as supervisor), and later became Professor of Mathematics at Uppsala University.
Åke 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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