Jules Tannery
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| Jules Tannery | |
 Jules Tannery (1848-1910). Photo by A. Gerschel & Sons (c. 1866).
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| Born | March 24, 1848 Mantes-sur-Seine, France |
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| Died | December 11, 1910 (aged 62) Paris, France |
| Residence | France |
| Nationality | French |
| Fields | Mathematician |
| Institutions | École Normale Supérieure Université de Paris Sorbonne |
| Alma mater | École Normale Supérieure |
| Doctoral advisor | Charles Hermite |
| Doctoral students | Albert Châtelet Jacques Hadamard |
| Known for | Philosophy of mathematics |
| Influenced | Paul Tannery Paul Painlevé Jules Drach Emile Borel Elie Cartan |
| Religious stance | Roman Catholic, though had a religious crisis in the 1870s. |
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Brother of Paul Tannery |
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Jules Tannery (March 24, 1848 – December 11, 1910) was a French mathematician who notably studied under Charles Hermite and was the PhD advisor of Jacques Hadamard.
Under Hermite, he received is doctorate in 1874 for his thesis Propriétés des Intégrales des Équations Différentielle Linéaires à Coefficients Variables.
He discovered a surface of the fourth order of which all the geodesic lines are algebraic. He was not an inventor, however, but essentially a critic and methodologist. He once remarked, "Mathematicians are so used to their symbols and have so much fun playing with them, that it is sometimes necessary to take their toys away from them in order to oblige them to think."
He notably influenced Paul Painlevé, Jules Drach, and Emile Borel to take up science.
His efforts were mainly directed to the study of the mathematical foundations and of the philosophical ideas implied in mathematical thinking.
[edit] References
- George Sarton, "Jules, and Marie Tannery (with a note on Grégoire Wyrouboff)," Isis, Vol. 38, No. 1/2. (Nov., 1947), pp. 33-51.
