Constantin Marie Le Paige (9 March 1852 – 26 January 1929) was a Belgian

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. Born in

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, Le Paige began studying

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in 1869 at the

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. After studying analysis under Professor

Eugène Charles Catalan Eugène Charles Catalan (; 30 May 1814 – 14 February 1894) was a French and Belgian mathematician who worked on continued fractions, descriptive geometry, number theory and combinatorics. His notable contributions included discovering a periodi ...

, Le Paige became a professor at the Université de Liège in 1882. While interested in

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and the

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, Le Paige mainly worked on the theory of algebraic form, especially algebraic curves and surfaces and more particularly for his work on the construction of cubic surfaces. Le Paige remained at the university until his retirement in 1922.

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at www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk 1852 births 1929 deaths 19th-century Belgian mathematicians 20th-century Belgian mathematicians 20th-century Belgian astronomers University of Liège alumni Scientists from Liège Academic staff of the University of Liège {{europe-mathematician-stub