Claude-Antoine Péccot

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Claude-Antoine Péccot (born April 27, 1856 in Auteuil , then near Paris , † September 18, 1876 in Paris) was a French mathematician and pianist who was considered a " child prodigy ".

He is known as the namesake of the Péccot (-Vimont) Foundation, the Péccot (-Vimont) Prize and the Péccot Lectures of the Collège de France .

Life

Claude-Antoine Péccot's father is unknown. His mother, Julie-Anne Antoinette Péccot, chose her best friend Claudine Lafont, daughter of the doctor Lafont, who was director of the École de Médecine ( medical school ) in Nantes , to be her godmother . Péccot was in delicate health.

When the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871) broke out in 1870, Claude, his mother and his godmother moved to Orvault . As soon as circumstances allowed, he returned to Paris to continue his studies there. At the age of 19, Péccot received a licentiate (roughly equivalent to a bachelor's degree ) in natural sciences and attended several lectures on analysis (known at the time as "transcendental mathematics") at the Sorbonne , the University of Paris .

Claude-Antoine Péccot died at the age of 20 of an illness that resulted from overwork.

Honors

Claudine Lafont commissioned a mausoleum in honor of her godchild in 1895 to honor his early talent. This mausoleum is a small hexagonal building which is located near the village of Le Bas Cormier in Orvault. There is also a street in Orvault, Avenue Claude-Antoine Péccot, named after Péccot.

A foundation by Claudine Lafont (widow André Eugène Vimonts) and Julie-Anne Antoinette Péccot, the Claude-Antoine Péccot or Fondation Péccot-Vimont (Péccot [-Vimont] Foundation), named after Péccot , is held every year at the Collège de France (or the École normal supérieure ) donates the Cours Péccot (Péccot lectures) for one to three young mathematicians (aged under 30). The foundation also sponsored the Prix ​​Péccot resp. Prix ​​Péccot-Vimont (Péccot [-Vimont] Prize) of the Collège de France.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jean Hervé Favre: Claude-Antoine PECCOT. Geneanet , accessed July 29, 2014 (French).
  2. ^ Peccot, Claude-Antoine (1856–1876). IdRef (Identifiants et Référentiels), SUDOC , December 17, 2003, accessed on July 29, 2014 (French).
  3. ^ Fondation Péccot-Vimont. Collège de France, accessed July 29, 2014 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Péccot, Claude-Antoine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peccot, Claude-Antoine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French mathematician and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Auteuil
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1876
Place of death Paris