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Historical origins. Jensen’s inequality is named after the Danish mathematician Johan Ludwig William Valdemar Jensen, born 8 May 1859 in Nakskov, Denmark, died 5 March 1925 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Q+ is the set of the positive rational numbers
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Sedrakyan, H., Sedrakyan, N. (2018). Jensen’s Inequality. In: Algebraic Inequalities. Problem Books in Mathematics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77836-5_11
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