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Eugène Charles Catalan
French and Belgian mathematician (1814–1894)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 30 May 1814
- Died
- 14 February 1894
- Place of birth
- Bruges
- Place of death
- Liège
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Catalan
- Field of work
- combinatorics, number theory
- Occupation
- mathematician, university teacher
- Native language
- French
- Awards
- Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, Knight of the Order of Leopold, Officer of the Order of Leopold
- birth name
- Eugène Charles Bardin
- cause of death
- pneumonia
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, BEIC Digital Library
- doctoral advisor
- Joseph Liouville
- doctoral student
- Charles Hermite, Constantin Le Paige, François Deruyts, Ernesto Cesaro
- employer
- University of Liège, Lycée Saint-Louis, École royale de dessin, Q120289734, École polytechnique, Lycée Charlemagne
- languages spoken, written or signed
- French
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Academy of Sciences of Turin, Société Philomathique de Paris
- name in native language
- Eugène-Charles Catalan
- notable work
- Catalan number, Catalan solid, Catalan surface, Catalan's conjecture, Fermat–Catalan conjecture, Catalan's constant, Catalan's identity, Catalan's minimal surface
- place of burial
- Robermont Cemetery
- student of
- Louis Lefébure de Fourcy
- topic's main category
- Category:Eugène Charles Catalan
- work location
- Paris
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