Jean Gaston Darboux
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Jean Gaston Darboux (August 14, 1842, Nîmes – February 23, 1917, Paris) was a French mathematician. He made several important contributions to geometry and mathematical analysis (see Linear PDEs for example). He was a biographer of Henri Poincaré.
He received his Ph.D. from the École Normale Supérieure in 1866. In 1884, he was elected to the Académie des Sciences. In 1900, he was appointed the Academy's permanent secretary.
There are many things named after him:
- Darboux integral
- Darboux function
- Darboux's theorem in symplectic topology
- Darboux's theorem in real analysis, related to Intermediate value theorem
- Christoffel-Darboux identity [1]
- Christoffel-Darboux formula [2]
- Darboux's formula [3]
- Darboux vector [4]
- Euler-Darboux equation [5]
- Euler-Poisson-Darboux equation [6]
- Darboux cubic [7]
- Darboux [8] or Goursat problem [9]
[edit] External links
- A biography in Weisstein's World of Biography
- O'Connor, John J., and Edmund F. Robertson. "Jean Gaston Darboux". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- Jean Gaston Darboux at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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