Victor Puiseux
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Victor Alexandre Puiseux (1820–1883) was a French Roman Catholic mathematician and astronomer.
[edit] Life
He was born in 1820 in Argenteuil, France. He occupied the chair of celestial mechanics at the Sorbonne. Excelling in mathematical analysis, he introduced new methods in his account of algebraic functions, and by his contributions to celestial mechanics advanced knowledge in that direction. In 1871 he was unanimously elected to the French Academy.
He died in 1883 in Frontenay, France.
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