Bour (surname)
Bour is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Edmond Bour (1832–1866), French engineer *Ernest Bour (1913–2001), French conductor *Elliot M. Bour (born 1969), American director, animator, and actor *Igor Bour (born 1984), Moldavian weightlifter *Justin Bour (born 1988), American professional baseball player {{surname, Bour ...
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Edmond Bour
Jacques Edmond Émile Bour (; 19 May 1832 – 8 March 1866) was a French engineer famous for the . His parents were Joseph Bour and Gabrielle Jeunet. He was a student at l'École Polytechnique and graduated at the top of his class in 1852. After teaching for a year as a professor at l'École des Mines de Saint-Étienne, he became a professor of engineering at l'École Polytechnique. In 1858 he obtained the grand prize in mathematics from the Académie des Sciences for his treatise on ''L'intégration des équations aux dérivées partielles des premier et deuxième degrés''. Most of his work was on the deformation of surfaces, and in particular, he introduced the sine–Gordon equation in 1862. Bour died on March 8, 1866, in his thirty-fourth year, at Val-de-Grâce The (' or ') was a military hospital located at in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France. It was closed as a hospital in 2016. History The church of the was built by order of Queen Anne of Austria, wife of ...
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