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Victor-Amédée Lebesgue, sometimes written Le Besgue, (2 October 1791, Grandvilliers (
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mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...
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 The French Academy of Sciences (French: ''Académie des sciences'') is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research. It was at the ...
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 ...
* Lebesgue–Nagell type equations


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LEBESGUE , Victor Amédée
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lebesgue, Victor-Amedee 1791 births 1875 deaths 19th-century French mathematicians Number theorists