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Édouard Goursat

lived from 1858 to 1936

Édouard Goursat was a French mathematician who is best known for his version of the Cauchy-Goursat theorem stating that the integral of a function round a simple closed contour is zero if the function is analytic inside the contour.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Goursat/