Mathematician:Lucas

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Lucas may refer to:

Henry Lucas $($$\text {c. 1610}$ – $\text {1663}$$)$

English clergyman and politician whose name lives on in mathematics through the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics.
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François Édouard Anatole Lucas $($$\text {1842}$ – $\text {1891}$$)$

French mathematician best known for his study of the Fibonacci numbers. As a result of his researches, discovered what are now known as the Lucas numbers.

In $1876$, proved that the Mersenne number $M_{127}$ is prime, and discovered that $M_{67}$ is actually composite.
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