Pierre Léon Boutroux (; 6 December 1880 – 15 August 1922) was a French

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and historian of science. Boutroux is chiefly known for his work in the history and

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Biography

He was born in

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on 6 December 1880 into a well connected family of the French intelligentsia. His father was the philosopher

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. His mother was Aline Catherine Eugénie Poincaré, sister of the scientist and mathematician

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. A cousin of Aline,

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was to be

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. He occupied the mathematics chair at

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from 1913 until 1914. He occupied the History of sciences chair from 1920 to 1922. Boutroux published his major work ''Les principes de l'analyse mathématique'' in two volumes; ''Volume 1'' in 1914 and ''Volume 2'' in 1919. This is a comprehensive view of the whole field of mathematics at the time. He was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1904 at Heidelberg, in 1908 at Rome, and in 1920 at Strasbourg. He died on 15 August 1922, aged 41 years.

Works

* ''L'Imagination et les mathématiques selon Descartes'' (1900) * ''Sur quelques propriétés des fonctions entières'' (1903) * ''Œuvres de

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, publiées suivant l'ordre chronologique, avec documents complémentaires, introductions et notes, par

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et Pierre Boutroux'' (1908) * ''Leçons sur les fonctions définies par les équations différentielles du premier ordre, professées au Collège de France'' (1908) * ''Les Principes de l'analyse mathématique, exposé historique et critique'' (2 volumes, 1914-1919
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:Contient : (I) Les nombres, les grandeurs, les figures, le calcul combinatoire, le calcul algébrique, calcul des fonctions, l'algèbre géométrique. (2) La géométrie algébrique. Extensions de l'algèbre et constructions logiques. Extensions de l'algèbre ; les développements en séries. La méthode analytique en mathématiques. Analyse infinitésimale. Analyse des principes mathématiques. Analyse de la notion de fonction. * ''L'Idéal scientifique des mathématiciens dans l'antiquité et dans les temps modernes'' (1920)Texte en ligne
* ''Les Mathématiques'' (1922)

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at www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk 1880 births 1922 deaths Academic staff of the Collège de France Princeton University faculty Mathematical analysts 19th-century French mathematicians 20th-century French mathematicians {{france-mathematician-stub

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