Laurent may refer to:
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Laurent (name)
Laurent is a French masculine given name of Latin origin. It is used in France, Canada, and other French-speaking countries. The name was derived from the Roman surname Laurentius, which meant "from Laurentum". It can also be derived from the Old ...
, a French masculine given name and a surname
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Saint Laurence
Saint Lawrence or Laurence ( la, Laurentius, lit. " laurelled"; 31 December AD 225 – 10 August 258) was one of the seven deacons of the city of Rome under Pope Sixtus II who were martyred in the persecution of the Christians that the Roman ...
(aka: Saint ''Laurent''), the martyr Laurent
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Pierre Alphonse Laurent
Pierre Alphonse Laurent (18 July 1813 – 2 September 1854) was a French mathematician, engineer, and Military Officer best known for discovering the Laurent series, an expansion of a function into an infinite power series, generalizing the Tayl ...
, mathematician
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Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent
Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent (or Joseph Laurent) (died 1900) was a French amateur astronomer and chemist who discovered the asteroid 51 Nemausa in 1858, for which he was a recipient of the Lalande Prize awarded by the French Academ ...
, amateur astronomer, discoverer of minor planet (51) Nemausa
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Laurent, South Dakota
Laurent was a proposed planned community south of Salem, South Dakota and which was designed for Deaf, Hard of Hearing and other American Sign Language users. The town was to be named after Laurent Clerc; it was originally planned that the first ...
, a proposed town for the Deaf to be named for Laurent Clerc
See also
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Laurent series
In mathematics, the Laurent series of a complex function f(z) is a representation of that function as a power series which includes terms of negative degree. It may be used to express complex functions in cases where a Taylor series expansion c ...
, in mathematics, representation of a complex function ''f(z)'' as a power series which includes terms of negative degree, named for Pierre Alphonse Laurent
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Saint-Laurent (disambiguation) Saint Lawrence (225–258) was a Christian martyr.
Saint Lawrence or Saint Laurence may also refer to:
Saints
* Laurence of Siponto (died c. 545), bishop of Siponto in Italy
* Laurence of Canterbury (died 619), second Archbishop of Canterbury
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Laurence
Laurence is an English and French given name (usually female in French and usually male in English). The English masculine name is a variant of Lawrence and it originates from a French form of the Latin ''Laurentius'', a name meaning "man from ...
(name), feminine form of "Laurent"
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Lawrence (disambiguation)
Lawrence may refer to:
Education Colleges and universities
* Lawrence Technological University, a university in Southfield, Michigan, United States
* Lawrence University, a liberal arts university in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States
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