Marie Georges Humbert (7 January 1859 Paris, France – 22 January 1921 Paris, France) was a French mathematician who worked on

Kummer surface In algebraic geometry, a Kummer quartic surface, first studied by , is an irreducible nodal surface of degree 4 in \mathbb^3 with the maximal possible number of 16 double points. Any such surface is the Kummer variety of the Jacobian varie ...

s and the

Appell–Humbert theorem In mathematics, the Appell–Humbert theorem describes the line bundles on a complex torus or complex abelian variety. It was proved for 2-dimensional tori by and , and in general by Statement Suppose that T is a complex torus given by V/\Lam ...

and introduced

Humbert surface In algebraic geometry, a Humbert surface, studied by , is a surface (mathematics), surface in the moduli space of principally polarized abelian surfaces consisting of the surfaces with a symmetric endomorphism of some fixed discriminant. References ...

s. His son was the mathematician Pierre Humbert. He won the

Poncelet Prize The Poncelet Prize (french: Prix Poncelet) is awarded by the French Academy of Sciences. The prize was established in 1868 by the widow of General Jean-Victor Poncelet for the advancement of the sciences. It was in the amount of 2,000 francs (as of ...

of 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 ...

in 1891. He studied at the

École Polytechnique École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * École, Savoi ...

. He was the

brother-in-law A sibling-in-law is the spouse of one's sibling, or the sibling of one's spouse, or the person who is married to the sibling of one's spouse.Cambridge Dictionaries Online.Family: non-blood relations. More commonly, a sibling-in-law is referred ...

Charles Mangin Charles Emmanuel Marie Mangin (6 July 1866 – 12 May 1925) was a French general during World War I. Early career Charles Mangin was born on 6 July 1866 in Sarrebourg. After initially failing to gain entrance to Saint-Cyr, he joined the 77th ...

Works

Application de la théorie des fonctions fuchsiennes à l'étude des courbes algébriques
Journal de mathematiques pure et appliquées, 4th Series, Vol. 2, 1886, pp. 239–328
Online, pdf
*Pierre Humbert,

Gaston Julia Gaston Maurice Julia (3 February 1893 – 19 March 1978) was a French Algerian mathematician who devised the formula for the Julia set. His works were popularized by French mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot; the Julia and Mandelbrot fractals are ...

(Editor): Georges Humbert- Oeuvres, Gauthier-Villars 1929 *Cours d'Analyse, 2 volumes, Gauthier-Villars 1902, 1904 (Lecturers given at École Polytechnique)

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Humbert, Marie Georges 19th-century French mathematicians 20th-century French mathematicians 1859 births 1921 deaths École Polytechnique alumni Members of the French Academy of Sciences