Carl Severin Wigert (1871–1941) was a
Swedish
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mathematician
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History
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who created
Stieltjes–Wigert polynomials and worked on the
divisor function
In mathematics, and specifically in number theory, a divisor function is an arithmetic function related to the divisors of an integer. When referred to as ''the'' divisor function, it counts the ''number of divisors of an integer'' (includin ...
, including correctly describing its maximal order of growth. Wigert
proved that
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Swedish mathematicians
1871 births
1941 deaths
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