Åke Pleijel
| Åke Pleijel | |
|---|---|
| Born |
10 August 1913 Stockholm |
| Died | 24 September 1989 (aged 76) |
| Nationality |
 Swedish |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions |
Lund University Uppsala University |
| Alma mater | Stockholm University |
| Doctoral advisor | Torsten Carleman |
| Doctoral students |
Abiy Kifle Christer Bennewitz Jaak Peetre |
Åke Pleijel (10 August 1913 – 24 September 1989) was a Swedish mathematician.
He completed his Ph.D. in mathematics at Stockholm University in 1940 (with Torsten Carleman as supervisor), and later became Professor of Mathematics at Uppsala University.
Åke Pleijel published the paper Minakshisundaram & Pleijel (1949) in which the Minakshisundaram–Pleijel zeta function was introduced.
References
- Minakshisundaram, S.; Pleijel, Å. (1949), "Some properties of the eigenfunctions of the Laplace-operator on Riemannian manifolds", Canadian Journal of Mathematics 1: 242–256, doi:10.4153/CJM-1949-021-5, ISSN 0008-414X, MR 0031145
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