Edmond Maillet

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Maillet (r) with Smith in Zurich 1932

Edmond Théodore Maillet (born December 15, 1865 in Meaux , † September 11, 1938 in Geneva ) was a French mathematician who dealt with number theory and mechanics .

Maillet received his doctorate on group theory at the Sorbonne in 1892 (Recherches sur les substitutions, et en particulier sur les groupes transitifs). Maillet groups (special permutation groups ) are named on the basis of this work . From 1911 to 1928 he was professor of analysis and mechanics at the École nationale des ponts et chaussées .

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In the 19th century he was one of the few people in France who dealt with algebraic number theory (the only French mathematician in the 19th century who, alongside Henri Poincaré, mentions the ideals of Ernst Eduard Kummer )

He also dealt with hydrology in particular of the Seine and Rhine.

He was a contributor to the French edition of the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences in the field of number theory.

In 1918 he was President of the French Mathematical Society. He received the Prix ​​Poncelet of the Academie des Sciences in 1912 and its Grand Prix des Sciences Mathématique in 1892.

Fonts

  • Introduction à la théorie des nombres transcendants et des propriétés arithmétiques des fonctions. Gauthier Villars, Paris 1906.
  • Mécanique et physique du globe, essais d'hydraulique souterraine et fluviale. A. Hermann, Paris 1905.
  • Cours de mécanique professé à l'École des ponts-et-chaussées. Premier livre, mécanique pure. Deuxième livre, mécanique appliquée. Hermann, Paris 1916.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical information based on Ulrich Felgner in Ernst Zermelo , Collected Works, Volume 1, p. 274
  2. ↑ Archives
  3. ↑ Catherine Goldstein , Sur la question des méthodes quantitatives en histoire des mathématiques: le cas de la théorie des nombres en France (1870-1914) , 1999
personal data
SURNAME Maillet, Edmond
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maillet, Edmond Théodore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Meaux
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1938
Place of death Geneva