Victor-Amédée Lebesgue, sometimes written Le Besgue, (2 October 1791,
Grandvilliers (
Oise
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) – 10 June 1875,
Bordeaux
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Gironde
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mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
History
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working on
number theory
Number theory (or arithmetic or higher arithmetic in older usage) is a branch of pure mathematics devoted primarily to the study of the integers and arithmetic function, integer-valued functions. German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777â ...
. He was elected a member of the
Académie des sciences
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in 1847.
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Catalan's conjecture
Catalan's conjecture (or Mihăilescu's theorem) is a theorem in number theory that was Conjecture, conjectured by the mathematician Eugène Charles Catalan in 1844 and proven in 2002 by Preda Mihăilescu at Paderborn University. The integers 2 ...
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Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem for specific exponents
Fermat's Last Theorem is a theorem in number theory, originally stated by Pierre de Fermat in 1637 and proved by Andrew Wiles in 1995. The statement of the theorem involves an integer exponent ''n'' larger than 2. In the centuries following the ...
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Lebesgue–Nagell type equations
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LEBESGUE , Victor Amédée
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1791 births
1875 deaths
19th-century French mathematicians
Number theorists