Gabriel Xavier Paul Koenigs (17 January 1858 in

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– 29 October 1931 in

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) was a French mathematician who worked on analysis and geometry. He was elected as Secretary General of the Executive Committee of the

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after the first world war, and used his position to exclude countries with whom France had been at war from the mathematical congresses. He was awarded the

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for 1893.

Publications

* Koenigs G. Recherches sur les intégrals de certaines équations fontionnelles. Ann. École Normale, Suppl., 1884, (3)1. * * * * *

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Koenigs, Gabriel Xavier Paul French mathematicians Members of the French Academy of Sciences 1858 births 1931 deaths

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