Lamé

Gabriel Lamé

Born: 22 July 1795 in Tours, France
Died: 1 May 1870 in Paris, France

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Lamé was a student at the École Polytechnique and later a professor there. Between these times (1820-1831) he was in Russia.

He worked on a wide variety of different topics. His work on differential geometry and contributions to Fermat's Last Theorem are important. Here he proved the theorem for n=7 in 1839. In number theory he showed that the number of divisions in the Euclidean algorithm never exceeds five times the number of digits in the smaller number.

On the applied side he worked on engineering mathematics and elasticity where two elastic constants are named after him. He studied diffusion in crystalline material.

References elsewhere in this archive:

Tell me about Lamé's work on Fermat's last theorem

Lamé worked on the Ellipse, on the Hyperbola and on the Lamé Curves

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. J Bertrand, C Combes, V Puiseau, Mélanges. Funérailles de M Lamé, le Mardi 3 Mai 1870, Bulletin des Sciences Mathematiques et Astronomiques I (1870), 189-195, 224-228. 
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