Ernest Vessiot (; 8 March 1865 – 17 October 1952) was a
French
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mathematician. He was born in
Marseille,
France, and died in
La Bauche
La Bauche (; frp, La Boush) is a commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.
See also
*Communes of the Savoie department
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,
Savoie, France. He entered the
École Normale Supérieure in 1884.
He was Maître de Conférences at
Lille University of Science and Technology in 1892-1893, then moved at Toulouse and Lyon.
After 1910, he was a professor of
analytical mechanics
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and
celestial mechanics at the
University of Paris. He presided over entrance examinations at the
École Polytechnique. As director of
École Normale Supérieure until 1935,
he overviewed the construction of its new physics, chemistry and geology buildings of 24, Rue Lhomond.
He was elected a member of the
Académie des Sciences in 1943.
Vessiot's work on
Picard–Vessiot theory dealt with the integrability of
ordinary differential equations
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.
Works
Leçons De Géométrie Supérieure(Hermann, 1919)
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French mathematicians
École Normale Supérieure alumni
Academic staff of the Lille University of Science and Technology
Members of the French Academy of Sciences
1865 births
1952 deaths
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