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Victor-Amédée Lebesgue
Born	(1791-10-02)2 October 1791 Grandvilliers, Oise, France
Died	10 June 1875(1875-06-10) (aged 83) Bordeaux, France
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics

Victor-Amédée Lebesgue (2 October 1791 – 10 June 1875; sometimes written Le Besgue) was a French mathematician working on number theory.

Lebesgue was born in Grandvilliers, Oise in 1791. He was elected a member of the Académie des sciences in 1847. He died in Bordeaux, Gironde, in 1875.

See also

• Catalan's conjecture
• Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem for specific exponents
• Lebesgue–Nagell type equations

Publications

• Lebesgue, Victor-Amédée (1837), Thèses de mécanique et d'astronomie
• Lebesgue, Victor-Amédée (1859), Exercices d'analyse numérique
• Lebesgue, Victor-Amédée (1862), Introduction à la théorie des nombres, Paris{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Lebesgue, Victor Amédée (1864), Tables diverses pour le décomposition des nombres en leurs facteurs premiers

References

• Abria, O.; Hoüel, J. (1876), "Notice sur la vie et les travaux de Victor-Amédée Le Besgue", Bullettino di Bibliografia e di Storia delle Scienze Matematiche e Fisiche, 9: 554–594
• Abria, O.; Hoüel, J. (1877), "Notice sur la vie et les travaux de Victor-Amédée Le Besgue", Nouvelles annales de mathématique, ser. 2, 16: 116–128
• LEBESGUE, Victor Amédée
• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Victor-Amédée Lebesgue", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews