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Jules Molk (8 December 1857 in Strasbourg, France – 7 May 1914 in Nancy) was a French

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who worked on

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s. The

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awarded him the Prix Binoux for 1913. He was appointed to the chair of applied mathematics at the

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upon the death of

Émile Léonard Mathieu Émile Léonard Mathieu (; 15 May 1835, in Metz – 19 October 1890, in Nancy) was a French mathematician. He is known for his work in group theory and mathematical physics. He has given his name to the Mathieu functions, Mathieu groups and Mathi ...

in 1890.H. Vogt
''Jules Molk, 8. décembre 1857 - 7. mai 1914''
L´Enseignement mathématique, tome 16, 1914, 380–383 From 1902 until his death in 1914, Molk was the leader and editor-in-chief of the publication of a French encyclopedia of pure and applied mathematical sciences based upon

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. It was a translation of the volumes in German and required the collaboration of many mathematicians and theoretical physicists from France, Germany, and several other European countries. Among the noteworthy contributors are:

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Felix Klein Christian Felix Klein (; 25 April 1849 – 22 June 1925) was a German mathematician and mathematics educator, known for his work with group theory, complex analysis, non-Euclidean geometry, and on the associations between geometry and group ...

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Paul Montel Paul Antoine Aristide Montel (29 April 1876 – 22 January 1975) was a French mathematician. He was born in Nice, France and died in Paris, France. He researched mostly on holomorphic functions in complex analysis. Montel was a student of Émile ...

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Ernest Vessiot Ernest Vessiot (; 8 March 1865 – 17 October 1952) was a French mathematician. He was born in Marseille, France, and died in La Bauche, Savoie, France. He entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1884. He was Maître de Conférences at Lille ...

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Ernest Esclangon Ernest Benjamin Esclangon (17 March 1876 – 28 January 1954) was a French astronomer and mathematician. Born in Mison, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, in 1895 he started to study mathematics at the École Normale Supérieure, graduating in 1898. Look ...

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, and

Tatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest Tatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest, later van Aardenne-Ehrenfest, (Vienna, October 28, 1905 – Dordrecht, November 29, 1984) was a Dutch mathematician. She was the daughter of Paul Ehrenfest (1880–1933) and Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva (1876–1964). ...

. In 1906 Molk was elected a member of the

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Publications

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Éléments de la théorie des fonctions elliptiques. Tome 1
sur Gallica.
Éléments de la théorie des fonctions elliptiques. Tome 2
sur Gallica.
Éléments de la théorie des fonctions elliptiques. Tome 4
sur Gallica.
Éléments de la théorie des fonctions elliptiques Volumes 1 et 2
sur Archive.org.
Éléments de la théorie des fonctions elliptiques Tome 1
sur Archive.org.

Encyclopédie des sciences mathématiques pures et appliquées

Site des Editions Jacques Gabay

Linum, livres numériques mathématiques

Encyclopédie des sciences mathématiques pures et appliquées Volume 1
sur Archive.org.
Encyclopédie des sciences mathématiques pures et appliquées Tome 4 Volume 2
sur IRIS.
Encyclopédie des sciences mathématiques pures et appliquées Tome 2, Premier volume
sur Gallica.
Encyclopédie des sciences mathématiques pures et appliquées Tome 2, Deuxième volume
sur Gallica.
Encyclopédie des sciences mathématiques pures et appliquées Tome 4, Cinquième volume
sur Gallica.
Encyclopédie des sciences mathématiques pures et appliquées Tome 4, Sixième volume
sur Gallica.

References

* Hélène Gispert (1999) "Les débuts de l'histoire des mathématiques sur les scènes internationales et le cas de l'entreprise encyclopédique de Felix Klein et Jules Molk",

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26(4):344–60. * French mathematicians {{France-mathematician-stub