Jules Tannery

Jules Tannery (born March 24, 1848 in Mantes-sur-Seine , † December 11, 1910 in Paris ) was a French mathematician.

Tannery was the son of railway engineer Delphin Tannery and the younger brother of Paul Tannery . The family often moved to France, depending on where the father worked. Tannery attended high school in Caen and passed the entrance examination for the École Normale Superieure (as well as that of the École polytechnique ) as the best. He studied at the ENS, graduating in 1869 as the best of his year. He then taught mathematics at the high school in Rennes and from 1871 in that of Caen before teaching at the ENS from 1872. In 1874 he received his doctorate from Charles Hermite ("Propriétés des intégrales des équations différentielle linéaires à coefficients variables") and then taught at the Lycée Saint-Louis and at the Sorbonne before becoming Maître de conférences at the ENS in 1881 and at the École Normale des jeunes filles in Sèvres. In 1903 he became professor of analysis at the Sorbonne.

He dealt with elliptical functions, with mathematics didactics, philosophy and history of mathematics, for example with Evariste Galois . From 1876 he was editor of the Bulletin des Sciences Mathématiques .

His PhD students included Albert Châtelet and Jules Drach and his students Paul Painlevé and Émile Borel . In 1907 he became a member of the Académie des Sciences .

Fonts

• Introduction à la théorie des fonctions d'une variable, Paris: Hermann 1886
• with Jules Molk Éléments de la théorie des fonctions elliptiques , 4 volumes, Paris 1893, reprinted Chelsea 1971, volume 1
• Leçons d'arithmétique théorique et pratique, Paris: Colin, 1894, 1911
• Pensées, Hachette 1912
  • and: Revue du mois, Volume 11, 1911, pp. 257-278, 399-435.
• Les mathématiques dans l'enseignement secondaire, La revue de Paris, Volume 4, 1900, pp. 619-641.
• Notions de mathématiques, Paris 1903
• Leçons d'algèbre et d'analyse à l'usage des classes de mathématiques spéciales, 2 volumes, Paris 1906
• Manuscrits et papiers inédits de Galois, Bulletin des sciences mathématiques, Volume 30, 1906, pp. 226-248, 255-263, Volume 31, 1907, pp. 275-308.
• Correspondance entre Liouville et Dirichlet, Bulletin des sciences mathématiques, Volume 32, 1908, pp. 47-62, 88-95, Volume 33, 1909, pp. 47-64.
• La philosophie de M. Henri Poincaré, Bulletin des sciences mathématiques, Volume 34, 1910, pp. 204-205.
• Science et philosophie, Paris: Alcan 1924

Web links

• John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson :  Jules Tannery. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
• Biography at Nancy University

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jules Tannery in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)