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Celebrating His 60th Birthday

In: Gösta Mittag-Leffler

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  • Arild Stubhaug

    (University of Oslo, Department of Mathematics)

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On March 16, 1906, Mittag-Leffler turned 60. Hundreds of letters, greetings, and telegrams poured in from all directions. Swedish and foreign newspapers wrote about the occasion, publishing feature articles and interviews. One report said that Stockholm College could someday expect a huge donation and that Mittag-Leffler had already given 5,000 kronor to the school, with the request that a prize should be established for outstanding mathematics work produced by the school’s students. This award, the Mittag-Leffler Prize, would be for 500 kronor, and it would be presented whenever there was a work worthy of the award and as long as funding existed. (Today, at Stockholm University, outstanding doctoral dissertations are still awarded the Mittag-Leffler Prize.) Behind these reports were concrete plans to transfer a portion of his shares (after his death) to the College, including the shares in Almqvist & Wiksell and at least 140,000 kronor in equity in the villa in Djursholm. In addition to these plans for donations to benefit mathematics, Mittag-Leffler was a strong supporter of a new commercial science institute at the College – plans that immediately caught the interest of Gustav Cassel, who continued to work on the idea.

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  • Arild Stubhaug, 2010. "Celebrating His 60th Birthday," Springer Books, in: Gösta Mittag-Leffler, pages 517-522, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-642-11672-8_63
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-11672-8_63
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