Mathematician:Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître

Mathematician

Belgian Catholic priest, mathematician, astronomer, and professor of physics.

The first to hypothesise the Big Bang theory.

Nationality

Belgian

History

• Born: 17 July 1894 in Charleroi, Belgium
• Died: 20 June 1966 in Leuven, Belgium

Theorems and Definitions

• Lemaître Coordinates

Definitions of concepts named for Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître can be found here.

Publications

• 1920: L'Approximation des Fonctions de Plusieurs Variables Réelles
• 1946: L'Hypothèse de l'Atome Primitif

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive