The Mittag-Leffler Institute is a

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research institute located in

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, a suburb of Stockholm. It invites scholars to participate in half-year programs in specialized mathematical subjects. The Institute is run by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on behalf of research societies representing all the

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n countries. The Institute's main building was originally the residence of Gösta Mittag-Leffler, who donated it along with his extensive mathematics library. At his death in 1927, however, Mittag-Leffler's fortune was insufficient to set up an active research institute, which began operation only in 1969 under the leadership of

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. The journals '' Acta Mathematica'' and ''

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'' are published by the institute. For a number of years at the beginning of the 20th century, Mittag-Leffler's villa hosted a celebratory dinner for

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laureates.

Notable visitors

Each year the institute invites the best mathematician in their fields to work on specific mathematical themes. Some notable past visitors include:

Louis Billera Louis Joseph Billera is a Professor of Mathematics at Cornell University. Career Billera completed his B.S. at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1964. He earned his Ph.D. from the City University of New York in 1968, under the joint supe ...

, Sy Friedman,

John B. Garnett John Brady Garnett (born December 15, 1940) is an American mathematician at the University of California, Los Angeles, known for his work in harmonic analysis. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Washington in 1966, under the supervision o ...

Roger Heath-Brown David Rodney "Roger" Heath-Brown FRS (born 12 October 1952), is a British mathematician working in the field of analytic number theory. Education He was an undergraduate and graduate student of Trinity College, Cambridge; his research supervi ...

, Sigurður Helgason, Helge Holden,

Harry Kesten Harry Kesten (November 19, 1931 – March 29, 2019) was an American mathematician best known for his work in probability, most notably on random walks on groups and graphs, random matrices, branching processes, and percolation theory. Biograp ...

Donald Knuth Donald Ervin Knuth ( ; born January 10, 1938) is an American computer scientist, mathematician, and professor emeritus at Stanford University. He is the 1974 recipient of the ACM Turing Award, informally considered the Nobel Prize of computer sc ...

, George Lusztig, Paul Malliavin, Benoit Mandelbrot,

Lynn Steen Lynn Arthur Steen (January 1, 1941 – June 21, 2015) was an American mathematician who was a Professor of Mathematics at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota in the U.S. He wrote numerous books and articles on the teaching of mathematics. H ...

, André Weil, Srinivasa S.R. Varadhan

Jean-Christophe Yoccoz Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (29 May 1957 – 3 September 2016) was a French mathematician. He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1994, for his work on dynamical systems. Biography Yoccoz attended the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, during which time he was a silv ...

Günter M. Ziegler Günter Matthias Ziegler (born 19 May 1963) is a German mathematician who has been serving as president of the Free University of Berlin since 2018. Ziegler is known for his research in discrete mathematics and geometry, and particularly on the ...

, Kenneth Falconer.

External links

Official website
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