Léon-François-Antoine Aurifeuille
Léon-François-Antoine Aurifeuille (1822–1882) was a French mathematician after whom Aurifeuillean factorizations are named.[1]
Léon-François-Antoine Aurifeuille | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1822 |
| Died | 1882 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
He was the author of three books: Cours de géométrie élémentaire (with C. Richaud, Paris: Bachelier, 1847), Traité de géométrie élémentaire (with C. Dumont, 2nd ed., Toulouse: Bonnal & Gibrac, 1860), and Traité d'arithmétique (with C. Dumont, 2nd ed., Toulouse: Bonnal & Gibrac, 1859).[2]
Under the pseudonym Alfred de Caston,[3] he also wrote several other books, including Les Tricheurs, scènes de jeu (Paris: E. Dentu, 1863) and Les marchands de miracles; histoire de la superstition humaine (Paris: E. Dentu, 1864).
Notes
- Wells, David (2005), Prime Numbers: The Most Mysterious Figures in Math, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., p. 15, ISBN 0-471-46234-9.
- Catalogue général des livres imprimés de la Bibliothèque nationale, Vol. 5, pp. 590–591, 1900.
- Alfred de Caston, French National Library, retrieved 2015-03-05.
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