Ivo Lah

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Ivo Lah (sl; 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.^[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]

A stamp was issued in Lah's honor by the Post of Slovenia in 2026.^[3]

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Pisanski, Tomaž (2002). "Ivo Lah". MacTutor History of Mathematics. Retrieved 27 March 2025.
↑ 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.
↑ "Overview | Ivo Lah". Pošta Slovenije. Retrieved 11 February 2026.

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).

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