Died 1894-02-14.
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Eugène Charles Catalan
Eugène Charles Catalan was a French and Belgian mathematician who worked on continued fractions, descriptive geometry, number theory and combinatorics. His notable contributions included discovering a periodic minimal surface in the space ; stating the famous Catalan's conjecture, which was eventually proved in 2002; and introducing the Catalan numbers to solve a combinatorial problem.
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science · Franco-Belgian mathematician (1814–1894) · mathematician · university teacher · also Eugène Charles Catalan, Eugene Charles Catalan, Catalan
Born 30 May 1814 · Died 14 February 1894 · Q41485
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1890· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the Order of Leopold (1890).
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour (1887).
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1883· 1 entry
Worked for the Belgian Academy of Science in the field of number theory
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Nouveau manuel des aspirants au baccalauréat ès sciences, 1852 (12 editions published)
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Awarded Knight of the Order of Leopold (1879).
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Still in Belgium, he became journal editor where he published as a foot note Paul-Jean Busschop's theory after refusing it in 1873, letting Busschop know that it was too empirical
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Éléments de géométrie, 1843, 2nd printing 1847
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1867· 1 entry
Cours d'analyse de l'université de Liège, 1870, 2nd edition 1880
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1849· 1 entry
Catalan was visited at his home by the French Police, searching for illicit teaching material; however, none was found
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1844· 1 entry
And was eventually proved in 2002 by Preda Mihăilescu
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1841· 1 entry
Studied at University of Paris (1841).
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1835· 1 entry
Studied at École polytechnique (1833–1835).
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Studied at Lycée Saint-Louis (1831–1833).
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Studied at École royale de dessin (1828–1831).
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1825· 1 entry
Traveled to Paris and learned mathematics at École Polytechnique, where he met Joseph Liouville (1833)
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Born 1814-05-30.
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