Ivo Lah
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Ivo Lah (Template:IPA; 5 September 1896 – 23 March 1979) was a Slovenian mathematician and actuary, best known for his discovery of the Lah numbers in 1955 and for the Lah identity. In the 1930s, Lah made the first tables about mortality rates in Slovenia.
Biography
Ivo Lah was born in Štrukljeva Vas near Cerknica, Austria-Hungary (present-day Slovenia) on 5 September 1896.<ref name=tomas>Template:Cite web</ref>
In the 1930s, Lah made the first tables about mortality rates in Slovenia.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Lah published Racunske osnovice zivotnog osiguranja in 1947.<ref name=tomas/>
Lah died in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia (present-day Slovenia).<ref name=tomas/>
References
Further reading
- Mulec, Janez (2023), Življenjska pot matematika Iva Laha (Life course of mathematician Ivo Lah, in Slovene). Self-published; reviewed in Zgodovinski časopis 78 (2024), Obzornik za Matematiko in Fiziko 70 (2023).
- 1896 births
- 1979 deaths
- Actuaries
- 20th-century Slovenian mathematicians
- Yugoslav mathematicians
- Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb alumni
- University of Vienna alumni
- Slovenian military personnel
- Austro-Hungarian Army officers
- Austro-Hungarian military personnel of World War I
- Academic staff of the University of Zagreb
- Academic staff of the Sapienza University of Rome
- People from the Municipality of Cerknica