Paul Matthieu Hermann Laurent (2 September 1841, in

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– 19 February 1908, in

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mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History ...

. Despite his large body of works,

Laurent series In mathematics, the Laurent series of a complex function f(z) is a representation of that function as a power series which includes terms of negative degree. It may be used to express complex functions in cases where a Taylor series expansion c ...

expansions for

complex function Complex analysis, traditionally known as the theory of functions of a complex variable, is the branch of mathematical analysis that investigates functions of complex numbers. It is helpful in many branches of mathematics, including algebrai ...

s were ''not'' named after him, but after

Pierre Alphonse Laurent Pierre Alphonse Laurent (18 July 1813 – 2 September 1854) was a French mathematician, engineer, and Military Officer best known for discovering the Laurent series, an expansion of a function into an infinite power series, generalizing the Taylo ...

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) 1841 births 1908 deaths People from Echternach 19th-century French mathematicians 20th-century French mathematicians Mathematical analysts {{France-mathematician-stub