Thomas Joannes Stieltjes
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Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (December 29, 1856 – December 31, 1894) was a Dutch mathematician, civil engineer and politician. He was born in Zwolle and died in Toulouse, France. He was a pioneer in the field of moment problems and contributed to the study of continued fractions.
The Thomas Stieltjes Institute for Mathematics at the University of Leiden is named after him, as is the Riemann-Stieltjes integral.
He was responsible for the construction of various harbours around Rotterdam, and also sat in the Dutch parliament.
See also
Lebesgue-Stieltjes integral, Laplace-Stieltjes transform, Riemann-Stieltjes integral, Stieltjes integral.