Gabriel Lamé French mathematician. b. July 22, 1795 in Tours, France d. May 1, 1870 in Paris, France Well known for his notation and study of classes of ellipse-like curves, now known as Lamé curves:

where n is any positive real number.

Also known for his running time analysis of the Euclidean algorithm. Using Fibonacci numbers, he proved that when finding the gcd of integers a and b, the algorithm runs in no more than 5k steps, where k is the number of decimal digits of b.

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