Florent Bureau
Florent-Joseph Bureau (born December 17, 1906 in Jemeppe-sur-Sambre , † June 28, 1999 in Uccle ) was a Belgian mathematician . He was a professor at the University of Liège and mainly dealt with analysis .
Scientific career
Bureau was the son of a railroad worker and attended the Athenaeum in Namur before studying engineering at the University of Liège, which he graduated in 1927. He specialized in metallurgy and received his doctorate in 1929. After winning travel grants, he continued his studies in Paris as well as in Berlin, Copenhagen and Rome.
In 1932 he became a lecturer in mathematics at the University of Liège, in 1933 he was Agrége for higher studies, in 1934 Chargé de Cours (lecturer) for algebra and determinant theory and from 1936 for analytical mechanics . In 1938 he became a full professor in Liège. He went to France during the German occupation in World War II .
In 1950 he was visiting scholar at the Collège de France in Paris, at the Institute for Advanced Studies , the University of Maryland and at New York University. In 1951 he attended the universities in Pisa, Naples and Rome, and in 1953/54 he was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Chicago and in 1955/56 at Duke University.
In 1956 he received the chair for higher analysis in Liège. In 1976 he retired .
Work
Bureau dealt with hyperbolic partial differential equations , building on the methods of Jacques Hadamard , and treated in this context problems of hydrodynamics , light propagation in crystals and the wave mechanics of the electron. He also dealt with common nonlinear differential equations in complexes, building on the work of Paul Painlevé .
In 1952 he received the Francqui Prize . In 1939 he became a corresponding and in 1944 a full member of the Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences . He was a Grand Officer of the Leopold Order .
Henri-Georges Garnir (1921–1985) is one of his students .
literature
- Jean Mawhin : Florent J. Bureau . In: Annuaire de l'Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique , 2002, pp. 1–27
- Jean Mawhin: Florent J. Bureau . Article in Nouvelle Biographie Nationale , 2005
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bureau, Florent |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bureau, Florent-Joseph (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 17, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jemeppe-sur-Sambre |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 28, 1999 |
| Place of death | Uccle |