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Eugène Charles Catalan
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French and Belgian mathematician (1814–1894)
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Eugène Charles Catalan (1814–1894) was a Belgian and French mathematician and university teacher whose work focused on combinatorics and number theory. Born in Bruges, he was educated at the Lycée Saint-Louis, École polytechnique, University of Liège, and University of Paris. His doctoral advisor was Joseph Liouville, and he later supervised doctoral students including Charles Hermite, Constantin Le Paige, and Ernesto Cesaro.
Catalan worked in Paris and held positions at the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, University of Liège, Lycée Saint-Louis, and École polytechnique. He was a member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Academy of Sciences of Turin, and Société Philomathique de Paris. He died in Liège.
His notable works include *Cours d'analyse de l'Université de Liége*, *Traite élémentaire des séries*, *Lettres à quelques mathématiciens*, *Cosmographie*, and *Note sur les fonctions Xn de Legendre*.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1814
- Died
- 1894
- Works
- 23
Top works
- Traité élémentaire de géométrie descriptive renfermant toutes les matières exigées pour l'admission à l'École polytechnique
- Cours d'analyse de l'Université de Liége
- Traite e le mentaire des se ries, par Euge ne Catalan,...
- Lettres à quelques mathématiciens
- [A collection of minor mathematical works, chiefly reprinted from periodical publications
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,423x
- The Pittsburgh sleep quality index: A new instrument for psychiatric practice and research
· 1989 · cited 29,175x
- Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
· 2015 · cited 23,710x
- Array programming with NumPy
· 2020 · cited 23,393x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,845x
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Authority record · VIAF
- Lifespan
- 1814–1894
- Nationality
- BE, FR
- Role / Field
- Matematycy, Pracownice i pracownicy naukowi, Pasniedzejs, Matematikis, Matematyka, Telotaja geometrija
- Language
- fre
- Gender
- Male
Recorded by 18 libraries
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1814-05-30 ) 30 May 1814, Brugge , Belgium
- Died
- 14 February 1894 (1894-02-14) (aged 79), Liège , Belgium
- Alma mater
- École Polytechnique
- Known for
- Catalan numbers , Catalan solid , Catalan surface , Catalan's conjecture , Catalan's constant , Catalan's identity , Catalan's minimal surface
- Fields
- Mathematics
- Thesis
- Attraction d'un ellipsoïde homogène sur un point extérieur ou sur un point intérieur. (1841)
- Doctoral advisor
- Joseph Liouville
- Doctoral students
- François Deruyts , Charles Hermite , Constantin Le Paige
- Other notable students
- Ernesto Cesàro
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Encyclopedic overview
Eugène Charles Catalan ( French pronunciation: [øʒɛn ʃaʁl katalɑ̃]; 30 May 1814 – 14 February 1894) 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
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