Talk:Gösta Mittag-Leffler

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What is Stockholm nation? It is impossible to intuit from context and I was unable to figure it out based on a quick google search. Adding this information to the article would be helpful. carmeld1 30 June 2005 23:22 (UTC)


 * It's one of the thirteen nations of Uppsala University, student corporations which have existed since the mid-17th century. I have been planning to write something about them eventually. A very brief English presentation of the Stockholmian nation is here: . Most of what is written about the nations is only available in Swedish. Uppland 1 July 2005 04:18 (UTC)

Father's name?
There seems to be a discrepancy as to the name of Gösta's father. The article on his sister Anne claims her father was "the mathematician Prof. C. O. Leffler", but her Gösta's article lists his parents as "school principal John Olof Leffler and Gustava Wilhelmina Mittag". I presume C.O. Leffler and John Olof Leffler are the same person. Which name and profession is correct?--Srleffler 16:12, 15 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Mittag-Leffler's father was John Olof (Olle) Leffler, who was principal of Katarina lägre elementarläroverk ("St Catherine parish grammar school" or something like that) in Stockholm 1861-1875. He was also a member of the second chamber of the Riksdag 1867-1870. This is according to Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (vol. 22, p. 424), usually a reliable source. The father hasn't got an article of his own, and is just mentioned on a few lines in a larger article on the Leffler family. He graduated with a magister degree from Uppsala in 1842; his dissertation could have been in mathematics, but the article doesn't say anything about that, so it seems unlikely that he was particularly distinguished as a mathematician. Uppland 20:00, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Mathematical Contributions
I think that the “theory of functions” in the introduction, even though a reference is given, is a mistranslation from the German „Funktionentheorie“ (or a similar term in another language), which in English is usually (at least nowadays, see the article on it) called “complex analysis”. Carsten Schultz (talk) 17:02, 6 July 2012 (UTC)