Eugène Rouché
Eugène Rouché (born August 18, 1832 in Sommières , Hérault department , † August 19, 1910 in Lunel ) was a French mathematician .
He was a high school teacher at the Lycée Charlemagne and then a professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris and also an examiner at the École polytechnique .
He mainly dealt with function theory . According to him, which is set by Rouché named (published in Journal de l'École Polytechnique, Vol. 39, 1862). In addition, he wrote well-known textbooks at the time, such as a geometry textbook in two volumes, first published in 1883 and reissued by Gauthier-Villars in 1922, as well as textbooks on graphical statics and analysis for engineers. With Charles Hermite and Henri Poincaré he edited the collected works of Edmond Laguerre .
In linear algebra, one of his theorems about the solution of inhomogeneous systems of linear equations is named after him (sometimes also theorem from Roché-Frobenius). In addition, a sentence is named after him and Alfredo Capelli . In 1883 he was president of the Société Mathématique de France . From 1896 he was a member of the Académie des Sciences .
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Eugène Rouché. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
References
- ↑ Proven independently by Georges Fontené, with whom there was a priority dispute. Ferdinand Georg Frobenius presented the sentence in only one essay in 1905 and attributed it to Rouché and Fontené.
- ^ List of members since 1666: Letter R. Académie des sciences, accessed on February 23, 2020 (French).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rouché, Eugène |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 18, 1832 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sommières , Hérault department |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 19, 1910 |
| Place of death | Lunel |