Joseph Liouville
1809 - 1882
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Liouville is best known for his work on the existence of a transcendental number in 1844 when he constructed an infinite class of such numbers.
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| Honours awarded to Joseph Liouville (Click below for those honoured in this way) | |
| Fellow of the Royal Society | 1850 |
| Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh | 1875 |
| Lunar features | Crater Liouville |
| Paris street names | Rue Joseph Liouville (15th Arrondissement) |
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