# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eugene-charles-catalan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:58:33.396Z

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name: "Eugène Charles Catalan"
slug: "eugene-charles-catalan"
description: "Eugène Charles Catalan was a French and Belgian mathematician who worked on continued fractions, descriptive geometry, number theory and combinatorics. His notable contributions included discovering a periodic minimal surface in the space ; stating the famous Catalan's conjecture, which was eventually proved in 2002; and introducing the Catalan numbers to solve a combinatorial problem."
tagline: "French and Belgian mathematician (1814–1894)"
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birthDate: "1814-05-30"
deathDate: "1894-02-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump