Åke Pleijel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Åke Pleijel

Swedish mathematician

Date of Birth: 10-Aug-1913

Place of Birth: Johannes parish, Sweden

Date of Death: 24-Sep-1989

Profession: mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Leo

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.