New Roles in Stockholm

The repairs and renovation work in their apartment on Karlavägen went so slowly that Gösta often felt, in his own words, “desperate.” Otherwise his days were so busy that from seven in the morning until eleven at night he didn’t have a single free hour. He felt it was proof of his hectic schedule that Signe didn’t attend a single theater performance in Stockholm until October 28, and even then she had to go with Anne Charlotte. Gösta himself couldn’t get there until an hour after the play had started. What took most of his time was the work on the journal; the amount of submitted materials and correspondence was increasing day by day. He found it necessary to hire a secretary, also because he’d started having pain in arm from all the letter-writing. At the College he gave his lectures on general function theory and the theory of analytic functions for approximately twenty students. Among them was Ivar Bendixson, who had spent a couple of years studying in Uppsala but had now started at the College. He was soon attracting attention with his mathematics work. In addition to his lectures, Mittag-Leffler also gave a weekly seminar from six thirty until eleven p.m.