Pierre Boutroux

Pierre Léon Boutroux
Born (1880-12-06)6 December 1880
Paris, France
Died 15 August 1922(1922-08-15) (aged 41)
Residence France
Fields Mathematics

Pierre Léon Boutroux (6 December 1880 – 15 August 1922) was a French mathematician and historian of science. Boutroux is chiefly known for his work in the history and philosophy of mathematics.

Biography

He was born in Paris on 6 December 1880 into a well connected family of the French intelligentsia. His father was the philosopher Émile Boutroux. His mother was Aline Catherine Eugénie Poincaré, sister of the scientist and mathematician Henri Poincaré. A cousin of Aline, Raymond Poincaré was to be President of France.

He occupied the mathematics chair at Princeton University from 1913 until 1914.[1] He occupied the History of sciences chair from 1920 to 1922.

Boutroux published his major work Les principes de l'analyse mathématique in two volumes; Volume 1 in 1914 and Volume 2 in 1919. This is a comprehensive view of the whole field of mathematics at the time.

He died on 15 August 1922, aged 41 years.

Works

Contient : (I) Les nombres, les grandeurs, les figures, le calcul combinatoire, le calcul algébrique, calcul des fonctions, l'algèbre géométrique. (2) La géométrie algébrique. Extensions de l'algèbre et constructions logiques. Extensions de l'algèbre ; les développements en séries. La méthode analytique en mathématiques. Analyse infinitésimale. Analyse des principes mathématiques. Analyse de la notion de fonction.

Further reading

References

  1. "Princeton Gets Prof. Boutroux". Christian Science Monitor. April 26, 1913. Retrieved 2010-11-09. Prof. Pierre Boutroux of Poitiers, France, will join the faculty of Princeton University next fall, according to a cable message received here Friday by Dr. Hibben.
  2. Moore, C. L. E. (1910). "Review: Leçons sur les Fonctions définies par les Équations différentielles du premier Ordre. Par Pierre Boutroux" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 16 (6): 318–320. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1910-01911-x.
  3. Shaw, James Byrnie (1914). "Review: Les Principes de l'Analyse mathématique. Par Pierre Boutroux. Tome premiere" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 24 (1): 32–36. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1914-02569-8.
  4. Young, J. W. (1923). "Review: L'Idéal Scientifique des Mathématiciens dans l'Antiquité et dans les Temps Modernes. By Pierre Boutroux" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 29 (10): 470–473. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1923-03800-7.


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