Achille Marie Gaston Floquet (15 December 1847,
Épinal
Épinal (; german: Spinal) is a commune in northeastern France and the prefecture of the Vosges department.
Geography
The commune has a land area of . It is situated on the river Moselle, south of Nancy. Épinal station has rail connection ...
– 7 October 1920,
Nancy) was a French mathematician, best known for his work in
mathematical analysis
Analysis is the branch of mathematics dealing with continuous functions, limit (mathematics), limits, and related theories, such as Derivative, differentiation, Integral, integration, measure (mathematics), measure, infinite sequences, series (m ...
, especially in theory of
differential equation
In mathematics, a differential equation is an equation that relates one or more unknown functions and their derivatives. In applications, the functions generally represent physical quantities, the derivatives represent their rates of change, an ...
s.
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Floquet theory
Floquet theory is a branch of the theory of ordinary differential equations relating to the class of solutions to periodic linear differential equations of the form
:\dot = A(t) x,
with \displaystyle A(t) a Piecewise#Continuity, piecewise contin ...
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1847 births
1920 deaths
People from Épinal
École Normale Supérieure alumni
19th-century French mathematicians
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