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Ivo Lah

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Ivo Lah
Born(1896-09-05)5 September 1896
Štrukljeva Vas, near Cerknica, Austria-Hungary
Died23 March 1979(1979-03-23) (aged 82)
Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
Alma materUniversity of Zagreb
Known forLah numbers
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics, statistics

Ivo Lah (pronounced [ˈiːʋɔ ˈlax]; 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

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Ivo Lah was born in Štrukljeva Vas near Cerknica, Austria-Hungary (present-day Slovenia) on 5 September 1896.[1]

In the 1930s, Lah made the first tables about mortality rates in Slovenia.[2] Lah published Racunske osnovice zivotnog osiguranja in 1947.[1]

Lah died in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia (present-day Slovenia).[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Pisanski, Tomaž (2002). "Ivo Lah". MacTutor History of Mathematics. Retrieved 27 March 2025.
  2. ^ Berlec, Metod (4 March 2019). "Dr. Janez Malačič: Pri nas je rodnost približno za tretjino prenizka glede na tisto, ki bi bila potrebna, da bi se prebivalstvo normalno obnavljalo!" (in Slovenian). Retrieved 9 September 2019.

Further reading

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  • 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).
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