Vassilios Lakon belongs to the mathematical record as a figure whose results outlasted the problems that prompted them.
The record lists Vassilios Lakon as Greek mathematician and university professor.
Vassilios Lakon was born at Kea in 1830. His recorded nationality is Greece. He studied at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and University of Paris.
The nineteenth century made mathematics rigorous: definitions were tightened, foundations questioned, and whole fields created from scratch.
His academic posts were held at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and National Observatory of Athens.
The recorded fields of work are pure mathematics and applied mathematics.
Mathematics is the one discipline whose results, once proved, are never overturned.
That the work was done from Greece matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Vassilios Lakon died in 1900, aged 70. The proofs remain, and a proof does not decay - which is the particular permanence mathematics offers.
Achievements
- Held posts at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and National Observatory of Athens
- Fields: pure mathematics and applied mathematics
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