Johan Jensen

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Johan Ludwig William Valdemar Jensen, mostly known as Johan Jensen, (May 8, 1859March 5, 1925) was a Danish mathematician and engineer.

Jensen is mostly renowned for his famous inequality, Jensen's inequality. In 1915, Jensen also proved Jensen's formula in complex analysis, and that there are infinitely many irregular primes.

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  • O'Connor, John J., and Edmund F. Robertson. "Johan Jensen". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.