Constantin Le Paige

Constantin Marie Michel Hubert Jérôme Le Paige (born March 9, 1852 in Liège ; † January 26, 1929 there ) was a Belgian mathematician.

Le Paige went to the Royal Athenaeum in Liège, studied at the University of Liège with Eugène-Charles Catalan and François Folie and received his doctorate in 1875 ("Quelques applications de la théorie des formes algébriques à la géométrie"). Then he was there lecturer and from 1882 associate professor and 1885 professor. From 1895 to 1898 he was rector of the university and in 1922 he retired. In addition to mathematics, he also taught astronomy and was director of the University's Astrophysical Institute from 1897 to 1922. From 1905 to 1922 he was the university's administrateur-inspector.

He dealt in particular with algebraic geometry. For example, he constructed a cubic surface given by three points on a straight line and sixteen other points.

He also dealt with the history of mathematics and astronomy and published the scientific correspondence of René François Walther de Sluze (1884).

In 1885 he became a corresponding and in 1890 a full member of the Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences and was a member of the Royal Society of Sciences of Liege. He was a member of the Leopoldina , the Bohemian Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Lisbon.

He owned a valuable collection of antiquarian books.

Web links

• John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson :  Constantin Le Paige. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .