Arthur Tresse

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Arthur Marie Leopold Tresse (born April 24, 1868 in Martigny-les-Bains , Vosges , † February 5, 1958 in Lisieux , Calvados) was a French mathematician.

Tresse studied at the École normal supérieure with the degree in 1891. There he was a college friend of Élie Cartan . He continued his studies at the University of Leipzig under Sophus Lie and got to know Friedrich Engel and Wilhelm Killing's work on Liealgebras, which he conveyed to his friend Cartan on his return to Paris. Soon afterwards (1893) Lie met Cartan on a trip to Paris, who was working on his famous dissertation on Lie algebras. In 1893 Tresse received his doctorate from Sophus Lie in Paris (Sur les invariants différentiels des groupes continus de transformations) In the preface, the term Lie group appears for the first time, which Tresse named after Lie.

Tresse was a mathematics professor at the Collège Stanislas in Paris and Inspecteur général de l'instruction publique.

He worked on the French edition of the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences (article Projective Geometry).

Fonts

  • with Alexandre Thybaut: Cours de de géométrie analytique. A. Colin, Paris 1904.
  • Elements of the analytical geometry. A. Colin, Paris 1925, 7th edition 1954.
  • Théorie élémentaire des géométries non-euclidiennes. Gauthier-Villars, Paris 1955.
  • Inversion, involution et leurs applications. Vuibert, Paris 1956.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical data from the catalog of the Paris National Library
  2. ↑ Thomas Hawkins Emergence of the theory of Lie groups , 2000, p. 196ff
  3. ↑ Published Acta Mathematica, Volume 18, 1893, pp. 1-88
  4. ^ Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach Groupes et syméetries , Ed. Ecole Polytechnique, 2006, p. 58
personal data
SURNAME Tresse, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tresse, Arthur Marie Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Martigny-les-Bains
DATE OF DEATH 5th February 1958
Place of death Lisieux