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||1768 – Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann, German mineralogist and geologist (d. 1873)
||1768 – Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann, German mineralogist and geologist (d. 1873)
||Eugène Charles Catalan (30 May 1814 – 14 February 1894)[1] was a French and Belgian mathematician who worked on continued fractions, descriptive geometry, number theory and combinatorics. His notable contributions included discovering a periodic minimal surface in the space {\displaystyle \mathbb {R} ^{3}} \mathbb {R} ^{3}; stating the famous Catalan's conjecture, which was eventually proved in 2002; and, introducing the Catalan numbers to solve a combinatorial problem.


||1814 – Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian-French mathematician and academic (d. 1894)
||1814 – Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian-French mathematician and academic (d. 1894)

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