ProofWiki:Mathematicians/Sorted By Nation/Belgium

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"The army of those who have made at least one definite contribution to mathematics as we know it soon becomes a mob as we look back over history; 6,000 or 8,000 names press forward for some word from us to preserve them from oblivion, and once the bolder leaders have been recognised it becomes largely a matter of arbitrary, illogical legislation to judge who of the clamouring multitude shall be permitted to survive and who be condemned to be forgotten."

Belgium

Maurice Kraitchik

1882 – 1957

Belgian mathematician and writer who wrote on number theory and recreational mathematics.

Proved in 1922 that the Mersenne number $M_{257}$ is composite, contrary to the claims of Marin Mersenne.
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Edouard Zeckendorf

1901 – 1983

Belgian doctor, army officer and amateur mathematician, best known for Zeckendorf's Theorem.
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