Name Jean Darboux Doctoral advisor Michel Chasles Notable awards Sylvester Medal | Role Mathematician | |
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Born 14 August 1842
Nimes, France ( 1842-08-14 ) Thesis Sur les surfaces orthogonales (1866) Doctoral students Emile Borel
Elie Cartan
Edouard Goursat
Charles Emile Picard
Thomas Stieltjes
Gheorghe Tzitzeica
Stanislaw Zaremba Died February 23, 1917, Paris, France Books Theorie Generale Des Surfaces Similar People Edouard Goursat, Simeon Denis Poisson, Elie Cartan, Leonhard Euler, Michel Chasles | ||
Education Ecole Normale Superieure | ||
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Jean-Gaston Darboux FAS MIF FRS FRSE (14 August 1842 – 23 February 1917) was a French mathematician.
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Life
He was born in Nimes in France on 13 August 1842. He studied at the Nimes Lycee and the Montpellier Lycee before being accepted at the Sorbonne.
Darboux made several important contributions to geometry and mathematical analysis (see, for example, linear PDEs). He was a biographer of Henri Poincaré and he edited the Selected 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 Țițeica and Stanisław Zaremba.
Darboux's contribution to the differential geometry of surfaces appears in the four-volume collection of studies he published between 1887 and 1896; see links below for access to these texts.
In 1902, he was elected to the Royal Society; in 1916, he received the Sylvester Medal from the Society.
He was a plenary speaker in the International Congress of Mathematicians 1908, Rome.
There are many things named after him:
Books
1887–96. Leçons sur la théorie générale des surfaces et les applications géométriques du calcul infinitésimal. Gauthier-Villars:
1898. Leçons sur les systèmes orthogonaux et les coordonnées curvilignes. Tome I. Gauthier-Villars.