Léon-François-Antoine Aurifeuille (1822–1882) was a French

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after whom

Aurifeuillean factorization In number theory, an aurifeuillean factorization, named after Léon-François-Antoine Aurifeuille, is a special type of algebraic factorization that comes from non-trivial factorizations of cyclotomic polynomials over the integers. Although cyclot ...

s are named. He was the author of three books: ''Cours de géométrie élémentaire'' (with C. Richaud, Paris: Bachelier, 1847), ''Traité de géométrie élémentaire'' (with C. Dumont, 2nd ed., Toulouse: Bonnal & Gibrac, 1860), and ''Traité d'arithmétique'' (with C. Dumont, 2nd ed., Toulouse: Bonnal & Gibrac, 1859). Under the

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French National Library, retrieved 2015-03-05. he also wrote several other books, including ''Les Tricheurs, scènes de jeu'' (Paris: E. Dentu, 1863) and ''Les marchands de miracles; histoire de la superstition humaine'' (Paris: E. Dentu, 1864).

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19th-century French mathematicians 1822 births 1882 deaths {{France-mathematician-stub