Roger Apéry

Roger Apéry
Born(1916-11-14)14 November 1916
Died18 December 1994(1994-12-18) (aged 78)
NationalityFrench
EducationLycée Louis-le-Grand
Alma materÉcole normale supérieure
OccupationMathematician

Roger Apéry (French: [apeʁi]; 14 November 1916, Rouen – 18 December 1994, Caen) was a Greek-French mathematician most remembered for Apéry's theorem, which states that ζ(3) is an irrational number. Here, ζ(s) denotes the Riemann zeta function.