Mathematician:Johan Ludwig William Valdemar Jensen

Mathematician

Danish mathematician and engineer best known for Jensen's Inequality and Jensen's Formula.

Nationality

Danish

History

• Born: 8 May 1859, Nakskov, Denmark
• Died: 5 March 1925, Copenhagen, Denmark

Theorems and Definitions

• Jensen's Inequality (Real Analysis)
• Jensen's Inequality (Complex Analysis)
• Jensen's Inequality (Measure Theory)
• Jensen's Formula

Results named for Johan Ludwig William Valdemar Jensen can be found here.

Publications

• 1916: An Elementary Exposition of the Theory of the Gamma Function

Also known as

Usually referred to as Johan Jensen.

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Johan Ludwig William Valdemar Jensen": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive