Émile Léger
Émile Léger (1795–1838) was a French mathematician. Life and work Leger studied at ''Lycée de Mayence'' (now Mainz in Germany, capital of the French department of Mont-Tonnerre during the French First Republic), where his father Claude was professor of rhetoric. In 1813 he entered the École Polytechnique. With other students, he helped defend Paris during the Hundred Days of Napoleon in March 1815, and was decorated for bravery. In 1816, he left school to go to Montmorency where his father founded an institution to prepare young people for the entrance exams to Paris universities. After his father retired, he managed the institution., page 410. Léger only published four papers on mathematics,, MacTutor History of Mathematics. but one of them seems to be the first to recognize the worst case in the euclidean algorithm: when the inputs are proportional to consecutive Fibonacci numbers In mathematics, the Fibonacci sequence is a sequence in which each element is the su ...
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Sainte-Menehould
Sainte-Menehould (; ) is a Communes of France, commune in the Marne (department), Marne Departments of France, department in north-eastern France. The 18th-century French playwright Charles-Georges Fenouillot de Falbaire de Quingey (1727–1800) died in Sainte-Ménéhould. It was the Subprefectures in France, subprefecture of the arrondissement of Sainte-Menehould until its abolition in April 2017.Décret n° 2017-453 du 29 mars 2017 portant suppression de l'arrondissement de Sainte-Menehould (département de la Marne)

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