Pierre Alphonse Laurent

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Pierre Alphonse Laurent (July 18, 1813 – September 2, 1854) was a French mathematician best known as the discoverer of the Laurent series, an expansion of a function into an infinite power series, generalizing the Taylor series expansion. He was born in Paris, France. His result was contained in a memoir submitted for the Grand Prize of the Académie des Sciences in 1843, but his submission was after the due date, and the paper was not published and never considered for the prize. Laurent died at age 41 in Paris. His work was not published until after his death.

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O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Pierre Alphonse Laurent", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews .

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Name	Laurent, Pierre Alphonse
Alternative names
Short description	French mathematician
Date of birth	July 18, 1813
Place of birth	Paris
Date of death	September 2, 1854
Place of death	Paris

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Pierre Alphonse Laurent

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