Georges Brunel

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Georges Edouard Auguste Brunel (born September 17, 1856 in Abbeville , Département Somme , † July 24, 1900 in Bordeaux ) was a French mathematician.

Brunel acquired his agrégation at the École normal supérieure (ENS) in Paris in 1880 and then studied with Felix Klein in Leipzig in 1880/81 . In 1881 he was an assistant at the ENS and then in 1882 a lecturer in mechanics at the École des Sciences in Algiers . In 1883 he received his doctorate from the ENS ( Étude sur les relations algebriques entre les fonctions hyperelliptiques de genre 3 , Annales Scient. ENS 1883) and was from 1884 professor at the Faculté des Sciences in Bordeaux , of which he was chairman. Under his leadership, the Natural Science Society in Bordeaux became a scientific institution not only known in France. He wrote the article "Certain Integrals" in the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences and was also a pioneer of graph theory .

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literature

  • Harald Gropp: Réseaux réguliers or regular graphs - Georges Brunel as a French pioneer in graph theory , Discrete Mathematics, Vol. 276, 2004, pp. 219-227
  • Pierre Duhem : Notice sur la vie et les travaux de Georges Brunel (1856-1900) , Mémoires Soc. Sci. Naturelle Bordeaux, 1902
  • Ulf Hashagen: Walther von Dyck , p. 101

Individual evidence

  1. Stanley Jaky, Francois Raymondaud Pierre Duhem - homme de science et de foi , 1991, p 59