Georges Darmois

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Georges Darmois (born June 24, 1888 in Éply , † January 5, 1960 in Paris ) was a French mathematician, mathematical physicist and statistician.

Life

Darmois studied from 1906 at the École normal supérieure (ENS) with the completion of the Agrégation in 1909. After that he was a taxidermist (Agrégé preparateur) at the ENS and prepared his dissertation. He did not receive his doctorate until 1921 (Sur les courbes algébriques à torsion constante) because of military service in World War I (artillery, air defense, sound detection). He had previously published on differential geometry (inspired by Gaston Darboux , whose lectures he attended). From 1919 he taught at the Faculté des Sciences in Nancy (from 1921 as a professor) and in 1933 he was Chargé de Cours at the Faculté des Sciences in Paris ( Sorbonne ). At first he was professor of probability theory and mathematical physics without a chair, from 1941 titular professor and from 1949 professor at the Sorbonne (as successor to Maurice Fréchet ). He also gave lectures (as a protégé of Emile Borel) at the Institut Henri Poincaré, founded in 1928 . He was the first professor of statistics in France and director of the Statistics Institute of the Sorbonne.

In addition to mathematical and applied statistics, he also deals with stellar dynamics and general relativity.

In 1955 he became a member of the Académie des Sciences .

His brother Eugène Darmois was a well-known physicist.

In 1928 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Bologna (Sur l'analysis et comparasion des séries statistiques qui se développent dans le temps). He corresponded with Ronald Fisher . Fisher attended the Henri Poincaré Institute in 1938 and Darmois visited London in 1940. Because of the outbreak of war, he stayed there during the war.

In 1945 he was president of the Société Mathématique de France. From 1954 he was President of the International Institute of Statistics.

Fonts

  • Les Equations de la Gravitation Einsteinienne, Memoirs des Sciences Mathématiques, Gauthier-Villars, 1927, Onlíne, numdam, djvu (PDF; 3.1 MB)
  • La théorie einsteinienne de la graviation; les vérifications expérimentales, Paris: Hermann 1932
  • La relativité, Paris: Hermann1932
  • L'emploi des observations statistiques, méthodes d'estimation, Paris: Hermann 1936
  • Statistique Mathématique, Paris: G. Doin 1928
  • Les mathématiques de la psychologie, Gauthiers-Villars 1940
  • Statistique et Applications, Paris: A. Colin, 1932
  • Calcul de probabilités, 1964

literature

  • Obituary by D. Dugué in Annals of Mathematical Statistics, Volume 32, 1961, pp. 357-360

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The most prestigious post after the competition for the Agrégation, he assisted Émile Borel , the director of the ENS
  2. ↑ The chair was the first chair for mathematical or theoretical physics in France, previously held by Henri Poincaré .
personal data
SURNAME Darmois, Georges
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French mathematician, mathematical physicist and statistician
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Éply
DATE OF DEATH 5th January 1960
Place of death Paris