Désiré André

Désiré André (André Antoine Désiré) (March 29, 1840, Lyon – September 12, 1917, Paris) was a French mathematician, best known for his work on Catalan numbers and alternating permutations.

He is the son of Auguste Antoine Désiré André, shoemaker in Lyon, and his wife Antoinette Magdalene Jar.

He entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1860 and passed the Agrégation in Mathematics in 1863.

Starting as a teacher at the Lycée de Troyes, he went on to Collège Sainte-Barbe, then to the University of Dijon and finally became professor of mathematics at Collège Stanislas de Paris from 1885 to 1900.

[1] Désiré André played a role in the French mathematical community of his time, including the Société Mathématique de France.