Charles Méray

{{short description|French mathematician}}

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Hugues Charles Robert Méray (12 November 1835, in Chalon-sur-Saône, Saône-et-Loire – 2 February 1911, in Dijon) was a French mathematician. He is noted as the first to publish an arithmetical theory of irrational numbers. His work did not have much of a role in the history of mathematics because France, at that time, was less interested in such matters than Germany.[http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Meray.html McTutor]

He was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1900 in Paris; his contributed paper was presented by Charles-Ange Laisant.{{cite book|author=Méray, Ch.|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cF1tAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA429|pages=429–431|year=1902|volume=Tome 2|title=Compte rendu du deuxième Congrès international des mathématiciens tenu à Paris du 6 au 12 Aout 1900|chapter=Sur la langue internationale auxiliaire de M. le Docteur Zamenhof, connue sous le nom d' << Esperanto >>}}