Pierre Boutroux
Pierre Boutroux (born December 6, 1880 in Paris , † August 15, 1922 in France ) was a French mathematician and historian of science .
He was the son of the philosopher Émile Boutroux and his wife Aline Catherine Eugénie Boutroux, née Poincaré, the sister of the mathematician Henri Poincaré . One cousin was the future French President (1913–1920) Raymond Poincaré .
Boutroux was best known for his work on the history and philosophy of mathematics . At Princeton University he held a chair in mathematics from 1913 to 1914 and at the Collège de France a chair in the history of science from 1920 to 1922.
With his main work Les principes de l'analyse mathématique in two volumes (1914 and 1919), Boutroux gives a comprehensive overview of the entire field of mathematics in the course of history.
Publications
- L'imagination et les mathématiques selon Descartes (1900)
- Sur quelques propriétés des fonctions entières (1903)
- Œuvres de Blaise Pascal , publiées suivant l'ordre chronologique, avec documents complémentaires, introductions et notes, par Léon Brunschvicg et Pierre Boutroux (1908)
- Leçons sur les fonctions définies par les equations différentielles du premier ordre, professées au Collège de France (1908) Online text
- Les principes de l'analyse mathématique, exposé historique et critique (Volume 1 1914, Volume 2 1919) Online text 1 2
- L'Idéal Scientifique des Mathématiciens dans l'Antiquité et dans les Temps Modernes (1920) online text . German edition with explanatory notes by H. Pollaczek-Geiringer: Das Wissenschaftsideal der Mathematiker , BG Teubner, Leipzig and Berlin 1927.
- Les mathématiques (1922)
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Pierre Boutroux. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boutroux, Pierre |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French mathematician and historian of science |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 6, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 15, 1922 |
| Place of death | France |