Ivo Lah
Ivo Lah (also Ivan Lah, born September 5, 1896 in Štrukljeva vas near Cerknica ; † March 23, 1979 in Ljubljana ) was a Slovenian mathematician and actuary .
Life
Ivo Lah studied in Vienna and Zagreb from 1918 and finished his studies in mathematics and physics in 1925. At the same time, he studied at the School of Commerce and Transport in Zagreb, where he graduated in 1923.
Lah served in the Austrian army on the Italian front during World War I and then as a volunteer in the Koroska Legion to secure the northern Yugoslav border. From September 1921 to October 1950 he was an employee of the Social Insurance Association in Ljubljana, Zagreb and Belgrade and then, until his retirement in 1956, at the State Statistics Office in Belgrade.
Ivo Lah was an active member of the Society of Actuaries of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and participated as its representative at the actuarial congresses in Rome (1934) and Paris (1937). His main work is a trilingual book Racunske osnovice zivotnog osiguranja ("Numerical Basics of Life Insurance", in Croatian, Russian and French). Because of the Latin quotation Natura non facit saltus (nature does not make jumps), this work was classified as anti-Marxist and withdrawn from circulation. Lah's scientific work comprises around 120 articles, including from the areas of statistics and demography . He is particularly known for the Lah numbers named after him .
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Ivo Lah. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lah, Ivo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lah, Ivan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Slovenian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 5, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Štrukljeva vas , Cerknica |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 23, 1979 |
| Place of death | Ljubljana |