Victor-Amédée Lebesgue
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Victor-Amédée Lebesgue, sometimes written Le Besgue, (2 October 1791, Grandvilliers (
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) – 10 June 1875,
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)) was a
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, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...
working on
number theory Number theory is a branch of pure mathematics devoted primarily to the study of the integers and arithmetic functions. Number theorists study prime numbers as well as the properties of mathematical objects constructed from integers (for example ...
. He was elected a member of the
Académie des sciences The French Academy of 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 method, scientific research. It was at the forefron ...
in 1847.


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Catalan's conjecture Catalan's conjecture (or Mihăilescu's theorem) is a theorem in number theory that was conjectured by the mathematician Eugène Charles Catalan in 1844 and proven in 2002 by Preda Mihăilescu at Paderborn University. The integers 23 and 32 ...
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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 proven by Andrew Wiles in 1995. The statement of the theorem involves an integer exponent larger than 2. In the centuries following the initi ...
* 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