Henri Villat
Henri René Pierre Villat (born December 24, 1879 in Paris , † March 19, 1972 ) was a French applied mathematician who dealt with theoretical fluid mechanics.
He came from a modest background and lost his father at the age of six. He went to school in Caen . In 1899 he began to study at the École normal supérieure , where he specialized in theoretical mechanics. After graduating, he taught at a grammar school in Caen and then became Maître des conférences in Montpellier . He received his doctorate in Montpellier (Sur la résistance des fluides) in 1911 with Émile Picard (and Louis Brillouin ) and dealt not only with applied mathematics, but also with Greek philology (the Anthologia Palatina ) and attended a congress in Athens. In 1919 he moved to the now French University of Strasbourg and in 1927 he became professor of hydrodynamics at the Sorbonne . There he became director of the Institute for Mechanics and developed a close collaboration with aerodynamics research funded by the French Ministry of Aviation ( coordinated by Albert Caquot from 1929).
He also taught at the École d'Aéronautique and at the Écoles Normales Supérieures de Sèvres , a university for women, where he taught not only mathematics but also philosophy.
In 1932 he became a member of the Académie des Sciences , of which he was president in 1948.
In 1920 he organized the International Congress of Mathematicians in Strasbourg and until his death he was the editor of the Journal de Mathématiques pures et appliquées , which he saved from decline. He also published the Memorial des Sciences Physique (Gauthier-Villars, from 1928). In 1946 he headed the 6th International Mechanics Congress in Paris.
His doctoral students include Jean Leray , Henri Cabannes and the Romanian Caius Iacob .
Fonts
- Leçons sur l'hydrodynamique, Gauthier-Villars 1929
- Méchanique des fluide, Gauthier-Villars 1930
- Leçons sur la théorie des tourbillons, Gauthier-Villars 1930 (theory of vortices)
- Leçons sur les fluides visqueux, Gauthier-Villars 1940
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Villat, Henri |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Villat, Henri René Pierre (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 24, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 19, 1972 |