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Born March 24, 1809 • Saint-Omer • France
Died September 8, 1882 (aged 73) • Paris • France
Founder “Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées”
Subjects Of Study Liouville number • Sturm-Liouville problem • doubly periodic function • transcendental number
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