In the history of mathematics, Victor-Amédée Lebesgue is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Victor-Amédée Lebesgue as French mathematician.
Victor-Amédée Lebesgue was born at Grandvilliers in 1791. His recorded nationality is France. He studied at Collège de Beauvais and University of Paris.
This was the age of analysis, when the calculus was pushed hard and its foundations were not yet secure.
His academic posts were held at Grande Armée, University of Grenoble and University of Bordeaux.
The recorded fields of work are mathematics.
Mathematical work is judged by whether anyone can build on it, and that judgement takes decades.
Recognition followed: Knight of the Legion of Honour (1845).
That the work was done from France matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Victor-Amédée Lebesgue died in 1875, aged 84. The proofs remain, and a proof does not decay - which is the particular permanence mathematics offers.
Achievements
- Knight of the Legion of Honour — 1845
- Held posts at Grande Armée, University of Grenoble and University of Bordeaux
- Fields: mathematics
