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Pierre Alphonse Laurent

Pierre Alphonse Laurent
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Pierre Alphonse Laurent was a French mathematician, engineer, and Military Officer best known for discovering the Laurent series, an expansion of a function into an infinite power series, generalizing the Taylor series expansion.

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Who was born first?

Timeline

  1. Carl JaenischApril 11, 1813 – March 5, 1872
  2. Claude BernardJuly 12, 1813 – February 10, 1878
  3. Jean Servais StasAugust 21, 1813 – December 13, 1891
  4. Louis Lucien BonaparteJanuary 4, 1813 – November 3, 1891
  5. Pierre Alphonse Laurent (this page)July 18, 1813 – September 2, 1854
  6. Thomas AndrewsDecember 19, 1813 – November 26, 1885

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