Pierre Humbert (13 June 1891,
Paris
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– 17 November 1953,
Montpellier
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) was a French mathematician who worked on the theory of
elliptic function
In the mathematical field of complex analysis, elliptic functions are a special kind of meromorphic functions, that satisfy two periodicity conditions. They are named elliptic functions because they come from elliptic integrals. Originally those in ...
s and introduced
Humbert polynomials. He was the son of the mathematician
Georges Humbert
Marie Georges Humbert (7 January 1859 Paris, France – 22 January 1921 Paris, France) was a French mathematician who worked on Kummer surfaces and the Appell–Humbert theorem and introduced Humbert surfaces. His son was the mathematician Pierr ...
and married the daughter of
Henri Andoyer.
Pierre Humbert was an Invited Speaker of the
ICM in 1928 in Bologna.
See also
*
Humbert series
Publications
Introduction à l'études des fonctions elliptiques, à l'usage des étudiants des facultés des sciences Paris, Hermann 1922
*with Henri Andoyer: Histoire de la Nation Française. Tome XIV, Histoire des Sciences en France; première partie, Histoire des Mathématiques, de la Mécanique et de l'Astronomie. Paris 1924
*Calcul Symbolique, Paris, Hermann 1934
*with Serge Colombo: Le calcul symbolique et ses applications à la physique mathématique, Paris, Gauthier-Villars 1949, 2nd edn. 1965
*Potentiels et Prepotentiels, Gauthier-Villars 1937
*Exercises numeriques d´ astronomie, Paris 1933
*L´Oeuvre astronomique de
Gassendi, Hermann 1936
*Histoire des découvertes astronomiques, Paris 1948 (book for young people)
*
Pierre Duhem
Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem (; 9 June 1861 – 14 September 1916) was a French theoretical physicist who worked on thermodynamics, hydrodynamics, and the theory of elasticity. Duhem was also a historian of science, noted for his work on the Euro ...
, Paris 1934
*Philosophes et Savants, Paris, Flammarion 1953
*with Serge Colombo: Introduction mathématique à l’étude des théories électromagnétiques, Gauthier-Villars 1949
References
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French mathematicians
1891 births
1953 deaths