Mittag-Leffler Institute
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Mathematics
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research institute located in Djursholm
Djursholm
Djursholm is one of four suburban districts in, and the seat of Danderyd Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden. Djursholm is included in the multi-municipal Stockholm urban area.-History:...
, a suburb of Stockholm
Stockholm
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. It invites scholars to participate in year-long or half-year programs in specialized mathematical subjects. The Institute is run by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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on behalf of research societies representing all the Scandinavia
Scandinavia
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n countries.
The Institute's main building was originally the residence of Magnus Gustaf (Gösta) Mittag-Leffler, who donated it along with his extensive mathematics library. At his death in 1927, however, Mittag-Leffler's fortune was insufficient to set up an active research institute, which began operation only in 1969 under the leadership of Lennart Carleson
Lennart Carleson
Lennart Axel Edvard Carleson is a Swedish mathematician, known as a leader in the field of harmonic analysis.-Life:He was a student of Arne Beurling and received his Ph.D. from Uppsala University in 1950...
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The journals Acta Mathematica
Acta Mathematica
Acta Mathematica is a journal publishing original research papers in all fields of mathematics. The journal was founded by Gösta Mittag-Leffler in 1882 and is published by Institut Mittag-Leffler, a research institute for mathematics belonging to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences...
and Arkiv för matematik
Arkiv för Matematik
Arkiv för Matematik is a peer-reviewed mathematics journal of the Institut Mittag-Leffler of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The journal was established in 1949 when Arkiv för matematik, astronomi och fysik was split into separate journals, and is currently published by Springer.The journal...
are published by the institute. For a number of years at the beginning of the 20th century, Mittag's villa hosted a celebratory dinner for Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize
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laureates.
Notable visitors
Each year the institute invites the best mathematician in their fields to work on specific mathematical themes. Some notable past visitors include:Louis Billera, Sy Friedman
Sy Friedman
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, John B. Garnett
John B. Garnett
John Brady Garnett is an American mathematician at the University of California, Los Angeles, known for his work in harmonic analysis. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Washington in 1966, under the supervision of Irving Glicksberg. He received the Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition...
, Roger Heath-Brown
Roger Heath-Brown
David Rodney "Roger" Heath-Brown F.R.S. , is a British mathematician working in the field of analytic number theory. He was an undergraduate and graduate student of Trinity College, Cambridge; his research supervisor was Alan Baker...
, Sigurdur Helgason
Sigurdur Helgason (mathematician)
Sigurdur Helgason is an Icelandic-American mathematician specializing in integral geometry and its generalizations to symmetric spaces. He was born in Akureyri, Iceland. Since 1965, he has been a professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was winner of the 1988...
, Helge Holden
Helge Holden
Helge Holden is a Norwegian mathematician working in the field of Differential equations and Mathematical physics.He took the dr.philos. degree at the University of Oslo in 1985. The title of his dissertation with Raphael Høegh-Krohn was Point Interactions and the Short-Range Expansion. A Solvable...
, Harry Kesten
Harry Kesten
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, Donald Knuth
Donald Knuth
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, George Lusztig, Paul Malliavin
Paul Malliavin
Paul Malliavin was a French mathematician. He was Professor Emeritus at the Pierre and Marie Curie University. He was a member of the Academy of Sciences since 1979.-Domains of research:...
, Benoit Mandelbrot
Benoît Mandelbrot
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, Lynn Steen
Lynn Steen
Lynn Arthur Steen is an American mathematician who is Professor of Mathematics at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota in the U.S. He has written numerous books and articles on the teaching of mathematics...
, André Weil
André Weil
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, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz is a French mathematician. He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1994, for his work on dynamical systems.-Biography:...
, Günter M. Ziegler
Günter M. Ziegler
Günter M. Ziegler is a German mathematician. Ziegler is known for his research in discrete mathematics and geometry, and particularly on the combinatorics of polytopes.- Biography :...
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