Émile Picard
French mathematician (1856–1941) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Charles Émile Picard FRS(For)[1] FRSE (French: [ʃaʁl emil pikaʁ]; 24 July 1856 – 11 December 1941) was a French mathematician. He was elected the fifteenth member to occupy seat 1 of the Académie française in 1924.[2]
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Born | Charles Émile Picard (1856-07-24)24 July 1856 |
Died | 11 December 1941(1941-12-11) (aged 85) Paris, France |
Nationality | French |
Alma mater | École Normale Supérieure (Paris) |
Known for | Picard functor Picard group Picard horn Picard modular group Picard modular surface Picard theorem Picard variety Picard–Lefschetz formula Picard–Lindelöf theorem Picard–Vessiot theory Picard–Fuchs equation Painlevé transcendents |
Awards | ForMemRS (1909)[1] Poncelet Prize (1886) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Paris École Centrale Paris |
Thesis | Applications des complexes lineaires a l'etude des surfaces et des courbes gauches |
Doctoral advisor | Gaston Darboux |
Doctoral students | Sergei Bernstein Paul Dubreil Jacques Hadamard Gaston Julia Traian Lalescu Philippe Le Corbeiller Paul Painlevé Mihailo Petrović Simion Stoilow Ernest Vessiot Henri Villat André Weil Stanisław Zaremba |
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