Åke Vilhelm Carl Pleijel | |
Birth Date: | 10 August 1913 |
Birth Place: | Stockholm |
Nationality: | Sweden |
Fields: | Mathematics |
Workplaces: | Lund University Uppsala University |
Alma Mater: | Stockholm 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 in which the Minakshisundaram–Pleijel zeta function was introduced.