Åke Pleijel

Åke Vilhelm Carl Pleijel
Born	(1913-08-10)10 August 1913 Stockholm
Died	24 September 1989(1989-09-24) (aged 76)
Nationality	Swedish
Alma mater	Stockholm University
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Lund University Uppsala University
Doctoral advisor	Torsten Carleman
Doctoral students	Jaak Peetre

Åke Vilhelm Carl 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 Vilhelm Carl 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 (3): 242–256, doi:10.4153/CJM-1949-021-5, ISSN 0008-414X, MR 0031145

External links[]

• Åke Pleijel at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

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