MATHEMATICIAN

Eugène Charles Catalan

1814 - 1894

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Eugène Charles Catalan (French pronunciation: [øʒɛn ʃaʁl katalɑ̃]; 30 May 1814 – 14 February 1894) was a French and Belgian mathematician who worked on continued fractions, descriptive geometry, number theory and combinatorics. His notable contributions included discovering a periodic minimal surface in the space R 3 {\displaystyle \mathbb {R} ^{3}} ; stating the famous Catalan's conjecture, which was eventually proved in 2002; and introducing the Catalan numbers to solve a combinatorial problem. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eugène Charles Catalan is the 265th most popular mathematician (up from 306th in 2019), the 186th most popular biography from Belgium (up from 252nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Belgian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Eugène Charles Catalan ranks 265 out of 1,004. Before him are Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Leo Perutz, Olga Ladyzhenskaya, Aristyllus, and Al-Khazini. After him are Lady Byron, Kazimierz Kuratowski, Eduard Heine, Jean-Robert Argand, Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, and Nikolay Bogolyubov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1814, Eugène Charles Catalan ranks 17. Before him are Hong Xiuquan, Henri Nestlé, Jenny von Westphalen, James Joseph Sylvester, Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours, and August Grisebach. After him are Princess Marie Luise Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel, Heinrich Geißler, Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Juan Prim, 1st Count of Reus, Sheridan Le Fanu, and Pierre-Jules Hetzel. Among people deceased in 1894, Eugène Charles Catalan ranks 23. Before him are Leconte de Lisle, Emmanuel Chabrier, Nadezhda von Meck, Hassan I of Morocco, Austen Henry Layard, and Bankim Chandra Chatterjee. After him are Nikolai Ge, Alexander von Middendorff, William Waddington, August Kundt, R. M. Ballantyne, and Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Eugène Charles Catalan ranks 186 out of 1,190. Before him are Paul Otlet (1868), Louis, Prince Napoléon (1914), Michel Preud'homme (1959), Paul Van Himst (1943), Henri, Count of Paris (1933), and Eugène Joseph Delporte (1882). After him are Fernand Khnopff (1858), Juliana of Liège (1193), Constantin Meunier (1831), Alexander Agricola (1446), Lara Fabian (1970), and Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne (1735).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Belgium

Among mathematicians born in Belgium, Eugène Charles Catalan ranks 3. Before him are Simon Stevin (1548), and Victor D'Hondt (1841). After him are Pierre Deligne (1944), Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin (1866), Adriaan van Roomen (1561), Pierre François Verhulst (1804), Ingrid Daubechies (1954), Grégoire de Saint-Vincent (1584), David Ruelle (1935), Jean Bourgain (1954), and Elias M. Stein (1931).

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