Paul Matthieu Hermann Laurent (2 September 1841 in

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– 19 February 1908 in

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) was a French

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, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...

. 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 expansio ...

expansions for complex functions were ''not'' named after him, but after Pierre Alphonse Laurent.

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