Jean Gaston Darboux

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Jean-Gaston Darboux
Jean-Gaston Darboux
Jean-Gaston Darboux
Born August 14, 1842
Nîmes, France
Died February 23, 1917
Paris, France
Doctoral advisor Michel Chasles
Doctoral students Émile Borel
Élie Cartan
Stanisław Zaremba
Notable awards Sylvester Medal

Jean-Gaston Darboux (August 14, 1842, Nîmes – February 23, 1917, Paris) was a French mathematician.

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[edit] Life

Darboux made several important contributions to geometry and mathematical analysis (see linear PDEs for example). He was a biographer of Henri Poincaré and he edited the Sellected Works of Joseph Fourier.

Darboux received his Ph.D. from the École Normale Supérieure in 1866. His thesis, written under the direction of Michel Chasles, was titled Sur les surfaces orthogonales. In 1884, Darboux was elected to the Académie des Sciences. In 1900, he was appointed the Academy's permanent secretary of its Mathematics section.

Among his students were Émile Borel, Élie Cartan, Gheorghe Tzitzeica and Stanisław Zaremba.

In 1902, he was elected to the Royal Society; in 1916, he received the Sylvester Medal from the Society.

There are many things named after him:

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[edit] Books by Gaston Darboux

1887-96. Leçons sur la théorie générale des surfaces et les applications géométriques du calcul infinitésimal. Gauthier-Villars:

[edit] Bibliography

  • "Darboux, Jean-Gaston". Biographical Dictionary of Mathematicians. (1991). Charles Scribner's Sons. 
  • Lebon, Ernest (1910). Gaston Darboux. Gauthier-Villars. 
  • Fourier, Joseph (1888–1890). Œuvres de Fourier. Paris: Gauthier-Villars. 

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NAME Darboux, Jean-Gaston
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Nîmes, France
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1917
PLACE OF DEATH Paris, France