Georges Humbert

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Marie Georges Humbert (born January 7, 1859 in Paris , † January 22, 1921 there ) was a French mathematician.

Life

Humbert was an orphan at an early age and grew up with his grandfather, a manufacturer, in Franche-Comté . He went to school in Juilly and Paris and studied at the École polytechnique and then at the École des Mines . After a few years as a mining engineer in Vesoul , he went to Paris, where he became a teacher at the École polytechnique and the École des Mines. In 1885 he received his doctorate (Su les courbes de genre un). For his investigation of the application of automorphic ( Fuchsscher ) functions (with which Henri Poincaré founded his theory of uniformity) on algebraic curves, where he worked on the fundamental work of Alfred ClebschIn 1891 he received the Poncelet Prize of the French Academy of Sciences and in 1893 the Prize of the French Mathematical Society, of which he was President from 1893. In 1895 he became a professor of analysis at the École Polytechnique. In 1904 he became assistant to Camille Jordan at the Collège de France and in 1912 his successor to his chair.

Humbert also dealt with Charles Hermite following number theory, which was little represented in France at the time. In 1892 he was awarded the prize of the French Academy of Sciences for his work on grief surfaces.

In 1901 he became a member of the Académie des Sciences, succeeding Hermite. In 1893 he was president of the Société Mathématique de France .

He was married twice. From his first marriage (his wife Marie Jagerschmidt died in 1892) he had a son Pierre Humbert , who also became a mathematician and published his father's works. From his second marriage (from 1900) he had two children.

Fonts

  • Application de la théorie des fonctions fuchsiennes à l'étude des courbes algébriques, Journal de mathematiques pure et appliquées, 4th series, Volume 2, 1886, pp. 239–328, PDF on Gallica
  • Pierre Humbert, Gaston Julia (editor): Georges Humbert-Oeuvres, Gauthier-Villars 1929
  • Cours d´Analyse, 2 volumes, Gauthier-Villars 1902, 1904 (lectures Ecole Polytechnique)

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personal data
SURNAME Humbert, Georges
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Humbert, Marie Georges (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1921
Place of death Paris