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
The French Academy of Sciences (French: ''Académie des sciences'') is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research. It was at the ...
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
The sine-Gordon equation is a nonlinear hyperbolic partial differential equation in 1 + 1 dimensions involving the d'Alembert operator and the sine of the unknown function. It was originally introduced by in the course of study of surfa ...
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 Louis XIII. After the birth of h ...
from an illness activated, if not provoked, by the fatigues of two long journeys, one to Algeria, for the observation of the eclipse of July 18, 1860, the other to Asia Minor, during the summer of 1863, for long metallurgical explorations.
See also
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Bour's minimal surface
References
External links
Jacques Edmond Emile Bour (1832-1866)on the site of ''Annales des Écoles des mines''
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19th-century French engineers
19th-century French mathematicians
1832 births
1866 deaths
People from Haute-Saône