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Eugène Charles Catalan
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French and Belgian mathematician (1814–1894)
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Eugène Charles Catalan, born Eugène Charles Bardin on 30 May 1814 in Bruges, was a mathematician and university teacher. He held citizenship in Belgium and France and worked in Paris. His fields of work included combinatorics and number theory. Catalan was educated at the École polytechnique, the University of Liège, the University of Paris, and Lycée Saint-Louis. He died in Liège on 14 February 1894.
Catalan received the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour. He was a member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Sciences of Turin, and the Société Philomathique de Paris. His employers included the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, the University of Liège, Lycée Saint-Louis, and the École polytechnique. He studied under Joseph Liouville and supervised doctoral students Charles Hermite, Constantin Le Paige, and Ernesto Cesaro. He spoke French and is described by the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary.
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- Lifespan
- 1814–1894
- Nationality
- BE, FR
- Role / Field
- Matematycy, Pracownice i pracownicy naukowi, Pasniedzejs, Matematikis, Matematyka, Telotaja geometrija
- Language
- fre
- Gender
- Male
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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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Charles
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Bruges
- Place of death
- Liège
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Lycée Saint-Louis
- Employer
- Lycée Charlemagne
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- French
- Notable work
- Catalan's minimal surface
- Doctoral advisor
- Joseph Liouville
- Doctoral student
- Ernesto Cesaro
- Field of work
- number theory
- Image
- Eugene charles catalan.jpg
- Work location
- Paris
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- date of birth
- 1814-05-30
- date of death
- 1894-02-14
- Commons category
- Eugène Charles Catalan
- member of
- Société Philomathique de Paris
- Commons gallery
- Eugène Charles Catalan
- name in native language
- Eugène-Charles Catalan
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- birth name
- Eugène Charles Bardin
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- pneumonia
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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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