Mathematician:Victor-Amédée Lebesgue

Mathematician

French mathematician working on number theory. He was elected a member of the Académie des sciences in 1847.

Not to be confused with Henri Léon Lebesgue.

Nationality

French

History

• Born: 2 October 1791 in Grandvilliers, France
• 1847: Elected a member of the Académie des Sciences
• Died: 10 June 1875 in Bordeaux, France

Theorems and Definitions

• Lebesgue-Nagell Type Equation (with Trygve Nagell)

• 1 plus Square is not Perfect Power

Publications

• 1837: Thèses de mécanique et d'astronomie
• 1850: Sur l'impossibilité en nombres entiers de l'équation $x^m = y^2 + 1$ (Nouv. Ann. Math. Ser. 1 Vol. 9: pp. 178 – 181)
• 1859: Exercices d'analyse numérique
• 1862: Introduction à la théorie des nombres
• 1864: Tables diverses pour le décomposition des nombres en leurs facteurs premiers

Also known as

His surname can also sometimes be seen as Le Besgue.

Some sources do not hyphenate his forename: Victor Amédée.

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Victor-Amédée Lebesgue": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive