Researching Johan Steffensen
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 3 people with the Steffensen surname? In that year Steffensen was ranked number 3576 for popularity in the UK. |
Records of Johan Steffensen on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Johan Steffensen and the Steffensen Genealogy
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Steffensen Family History Databases
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Some Famous People called Johan Steffensen
Johan Frederik Steffensen
Johan Frederik Steffensen (28 February 1873, in Copenhagen – 20 December 1961) was a Danish mathematician, statistician, and actuary who did research in the fields of calculus of finite differences and interpolation. He was professor of actuarial science at the University of Copenhagen from 1923 to 1943. Steffensen's inequality and Steffensen's method (an iterative numerical method) are named after him. He was an Invited Speaker at the 1912 International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Cambridge, England and at the 1924 ICM in Toronto.
Source: Johan Frederik Steffensen, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Steffensen
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