Pierre Humbert (mathematician)

Pierre Humbert (born June 13, 1891 in Paris ; † November 17, 1953 there ) was a French mathematician.

Pierre Humbert was the son of the mathematician Georges Humbert (1859–1921). He studied from 1910 at the École polytechnique and from 1913 to 1914 at the University of Edinburgh with Edmund Taylor Whittaker . After his military service in the First World War , where he was wounded, he studied again in Paris and received his doctorate in 1918 (Su les surfaces de Poincaré). Then he was professor of astronomy at the Faculté de Science in Montpellier .

As a mathematician, he dealt with special functions (such as the Lamé and Mathieu functions) and elliptical functions. He was strongly influenced by Whittaker and also worked (like Whittaker) on the symbolic calculus of operator calculus by Oliver Heaviside . He was the son-in-law of the astronomer Marie Henri Andoyer , with whom he published on the history of astronomy in the 17th century.

Fonts

• Calcul Symbolique, Paris, Hermann 1934.
• with Serge Colombo: Le calcul symbolique et ses applications à la physique mathématique, Paris, Gauthier-Villars 1949, 2nd edition. 1965.
• Potentiels et Prepotentiels, Gauthier-Villars 1937.
• Exercises numeriques d´ astronomie, Paris 1933.
• L'Oeuvre astronomique de Gassendi , Hermann 1936.
• Histoire des découvertes astronomiques, Paris 1948 (book for young people).
• Pierre Duhem , Paris 1934.
• Philosophes et Savants, Paris, Flammarion 1953.
• with Serge Colombo: Introduction mathématique à l'étude des théories électromagnétiques, Gauthier-Villars 1949.

Web links

• John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson :  Pierre Humbert (mathematician). In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Colombo did research in theoretical physics for the CNRS in France and was later professor at the Catholic University of Leuven. In 1983 he published a function theory textbook