Paul Painlevé (; 5 December 1863 – 29 October 1933) was a French mathematician and statesman. He served twice as

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of the Third Republic: 12 September – 13 November 1917 and 17 April – 22 November 1925. His entry into politics came in 1906 after a professorship at the Sorbonne that began in 1892. His first term as prime minister lasted only nine weeks but dealt with weighty issues, such as the Russian Revolution, the American entry into the war, the failure of the

Nivelle Offensive The Nivelle offensive (16 April – 9 May 1917) was a Franco-British operation on the Western Front in the First World War which was named after General Robert Nivelle, the commander-in-chief of the French metropolitan armies, who led the offensi ...

, quelling the

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and relations with the British. In the 1920s as Minister of War he was a key figure in building the

Maginot Line The Maginot Line (french: Ligne Maginot, ), named after the French Minister of War André Maginot, is a line of concrete fortifications, obstacles and weapon installations built by France in the 1930s to deter invasion by Germany and force the ...

. In his second term as prime minister he dealt with the outbreak of rebellion in Syria's Jabal Druze in July 1925 which had excited public and parliamentary anxiety over the general crisis of France's empire.

Biography

Early life

Painlevé was born in Paris. Brought up within a family of skilled artisans (his father was a

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) Painlevé showed early promise across the range of elementary studies and was initially attracted by either an engineering or political career. However, he finally entered the

École Normale Supérieure 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 ...

in 1883 to study

mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

, receiving his doctorate in 1887 following a period of study at

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, Germany with

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 ...

and

Hermann Amandus Schwarz Karl Hermann Amandus Schwarz (; 25 January 1843 – 30 November 1921) was a German mathematician, known for his work in complex analysis. Life Schwarz was born in Hermsdorf, Silesia (now Jerzmanowa, Poland). In 1868 he married Marie Kumme ...

. Intending an academic career he became professor at Université de Lille, returning to Paris in 1892 to teach at the

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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 ...

and later at the

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and the

. He was elected a member of the

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in 1900. He married Marguerite Petit de Villeneuve in 1901. Marguerite died during the birth of their son

Jean Painlevé Jean Painlevé (20 November 1902 – 2 July 1989) was a photographer and filmmaker who specialized in underwater fauna. He was the son of mathematician and twice prime minister of France Paul Painlevé. Upbringing A few days after Painlevé ...

in the following year. Painlevé's mathematical work on

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 led him to encounter their application to the theory of flight and, as ever, his broad interest in engineering topics fostered an enthusiasm for the emerging field of

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. In 1908, he became Wilbur Wright's first airplane passenger in France and in 1909 created the first university course in

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Mathematical work

Some

s can be solved using elementary algebraic operations that involve the

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and

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s (sometimes called

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s). Many interesting

special functions Special functions are particular mathematical functions that have more or less established names and notations due to their importance in mathematical analysis, functional analysis, geometry, physics, or other applications. The term is defined by ...

arise as solutions of linear second order

ordinary differential equations In mathematics, an ordinary differential equation (ODE) is a differential equation whose unknown(s) consists of one (or more) function(s) of one variable and involves the derivatives of those functions. The term ''ordinary'' is used in contrast w ...

. Around the turn of the century, Painlevé, É. Picard, and B. Gambier showed that of the class of

nonlinear In mathematics and science, a nonlinear system is a system in which the change of the output is not proportional to the change of the input. Nonlinear problems are of interest to engineers, biologists, physicists, mathematicians, and many othe ...

second order ordinary differential equations with

polynomial In mathematics, a polynomial is an expression consisting of indeterminates (also called variables) and coefficients, that involves only the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and positive-integer powers of variables. An exa ...

coefficients In mathematics, a coefficient is a multiplicative factor in some term of a polynomial, a series, or an expression; it is usually a number, but may be any expression (including variables such as , and ). When the coefficients are themselves var ...

, those that possess a certain desirable technical property, shared by the linear equations (nowadays commonly referred to as the '

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') can always be transformed into one of fifty canonical forms. Of these fifty equations, just six require 'new' transcendental functions for their solution. These new transcendental functions, solving the remaining six equations, are called the

Painlevé transcendents In mathematics, Painlevé transcendents are solutions to certain nonlinear second-order ordinary differential equations in the complex plane with the Painlevé property (the only movable singularities are poles), but which are not generally solvabl ...

, and interest in them has revived recently due to their appearance in modern geometry, integrable systems and

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. In 1895 he gave a series of lectures at

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on differential equations, at the end stating the

Painlevé conjecture In physics, the Painlevé conjecture is a theorem about singularities among the solutions to the ''n''-body problem: there are noncollision singularities for ''n'' ≥ 4. The theorem was proven for ''n'' ≥ 5 in 1988 b ...

about singularities of the

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. In the same year he published work on the Painlevé paradox, an apparent contradiction in simple models of

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. In the 1920s, Painlevé briefly turned his attention to the new theory of gravitation,

general relativity General relativity, also known as the general theory of relativity and Einstein's theory of gravity, is the geometric theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1915 and is the current description of gravitation in modern physics ...

, which had recently been introduced by

Albert Einstein Albert Einstein ( ; ; 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest and most influential physicists of all time. Einstein is best known for developing the theory ...

. In 1921, Painlevé proposed the

Gullstrand–Painlevé coordinates Gullstrand–Painlevé coordinates are a particular set of coordinates for the Schwarzschild metric – a solution to the Einstein field equations which describes a black hole. The ingoing coordinates are such that the time coordinate follows the ...

for the Schwarzschild metric. The modification in the coordinate system was the first to reveal clearly that the

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is a mere

coordinate singularity A coordinate singularity occurs when an apparent singularity or discontinuity occurs in one coordinate frame that can be removed by choosing a different frame. An example is the apparent (longitudinal) singularity at the 90 degree latitude in sph ...

(with however, profound global significance: it represents the

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of a

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). This essential point was not generally appreciated by physicists until around 1963. In his diary,

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recorded that during a later visit to Berlin, Painlevé discussed

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with Einstein, but there is no reference to discussions concerning the significance of the Schwarzschild radius.

Early political career

Between 1915 and 1917, Painlevé served as French Minister for Public Instruction and Inventions. In December 1915, he requested a scientific exchange agreement between France and Britain, resulting in Anglo-French collaboration that ultimately led to the parallel development by

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in France and

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in Britain of the first active

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.Michael A. Ainslie ''Principles of Sonar Performance Modelling'', Springer, 2010 , page 13

First period as French Prime Minister

Painlevé took his aviation interests, along with those in naval and military matters, with him when he became, in 1906, Deputy for Paris's 5th arrondissement, the so-called

Latin Quarter The Latin Quarter of Paris (french: Quartier latin, ) is an area in the 5th and the 6th arrondissements of Paris. It is situated on the left bank of the Seine, around the Sorbonne. Known for its student life, lively atmosphere, and bistro ...

. By 1910, he had vacated his academic posts and World War I led to his active participation in military committees, joining

Aristide Briand Aristide Pierre Henri Briand (; 28 March 18627 March 1932) was a French statesman who served eleven terms as Prime Minister of France during the French Third Republic. He is mainly remembered for his focus on international issues and reconciliat ...

's cabinet in 1915 as Minister for Public Instruction and Inventions. On his appointment as War Minister in March 1917 he was immediately called upon to give his approval, albeit with some misgivings, to

Robert Georges Nivelle Robert Georges Nivelle (15 October 1856 – 22 March 1924) was a French artillery general officer who served in the Boxer Rebellion and the First World War. In May 1916, he succeeded Philippe Pétain as commander of the French Second Army in the ...

's wildly optimistic plans for a breakthrough offensive in

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. Painlevé reacted to the disastrous public failure of the plan by dismissing

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and controversially replacing him with

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."Paul Painlevé"
in ''

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'' He was also responsible for isolating the

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in the

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camp, located in a remote spot on the plateau of Millevaches. On 7 September 1917, Prime Minister

Alexandre Ribot Alexandre-Félix-Joseph Ribot (; 7 February 184213 January 1923) was a French politician, four times Prime Minister. Early career Ribot was born in Saint-Omer, Pas-de-Calais. After a brilliant academic career at the University of Paris, where h ...

lost the support of the Socialists and Painlevé was called upon to form a new government. Painlevé was a leading voice at the

Rapallo conference The Rapallo conference (5 November 1917) and the Peschiera conference (8 November 1917) were meetings of the prime ministers of Italy, France and Britain—Vittorio Orlando, Paul Painlevé and David Lloyd George—during World War I in Rapallo an ...

that led to the establishment of the Supreme Allied Council, a consultative body of Allied powers that anticipated the unified Allied command finally established in the following year. He appointed

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as French representative knowing that he was the natural Allied commander. On Painlevé's return to Paris he was defeated and resigned on 13 November 1917 to be succeeded by

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was finally named Allied ''generalissimo'' in March 1918, eventually becoming commander-in-chief of all Allied armies on the Western and Italian fronts.

Second period as French Prime Minister

Painlevé then played little active role in politics until the election of November 1919 when he emerged as a leftist critic of the right-wing Bloc National. By the time the next election approached in May 1924 his collaboration with

Édouard Herriot Édouard Marie Herriot (; 5 July 1872 – 26 March 1957) was a French Radical politician of the Third Republic who served three times as Prime Minister (1924–1925; 1926; 1932) and twice as President of the Chamber of Deputies. He led the ...

, a fellow member of Briand's 1915 cabinet, had led to the formation of the

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. Winning the election, Herriot became Prime Minister in June, while Painlevé became President of the Chamber of Deputies. Though Painlevé ran for

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in 1924 he was defeated by

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. Herriot's administration publicly recognised the Soviet Union, accepted the

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and agreed to evacuate the Ruhr. However, a financial crisis arose from the ensuing devaluation of the

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and in April 1925, Herriot fell and Painlevé became Prime Minister for a second time on 17 April. Unfortunately, he was unable to offer convincing remedies for the financial problems and was forced to resign on 21 November.

Later political career

Following Painlevé's resignation, Briand formed a new government with Painlevé as Minister for War. Though Briand was defeated by

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in 1926, Painlevé continued in office. Poincaré stabilised the franc with a return to the

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, but ultimately acceded power to Briand. During his tenure as Minister of War, Painlevé was instrumental in the creation of the

. This line of military fortifications along France's Eastern border was largely designed by Painlevé, yet named for

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, owing to Maginot's championing of public support and funding. Painlevé remained in office as Minister for War until July 1929. From 1925 to 1933, Painlevé represented France in the

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of the

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(he replaced

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and was himself replaced by

). Though he was proposed for

in 1932, Painlevé withdrew before the election. He became Minister of Air later that year, making proposals for an international treaty to ban the manufacture of bomber aircraft and to establish an international air force to enforce global peace. On the fall of the government in January 1933, his political career ended. Painlevé died in Paris in October of the same year. On 4 November, after a eulogy by Prime Minister

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, he was interred in the

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Honours

*The aircraft carrier '' Painlevé'' was named in his honour. *The asteroid 953 Painleva was named in his honour. *The Laboratoire Paul Painlevé ( fr), a French mathematics research lab, is named in his honour. *

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dedicated the second of his '' Trois Chansons'' to him in 1915.

Composition of governments

Painlevé's First Government, 12 September – 16 November 1917

*Paul Painlevé – President of the Council and Minister of War *

– Minister of Foreign Affairs *

Louis Loucheur Louis Loucheur (12 August 1872 in Roubaix, Nord (French department), Nord – 22 November 1931 in Paris) was a French politician in the French Third Republic, Third Republic, at first a member of the conservative Republican Federation, then of th ...

– Minister of Armaments and War Manufacturing *

Théodore Steeg Théodore Steeg () (19 December 1868 – 19 December 1950) was a lawyer and professor of philosophy who became Premier of the French Third Republic. Steeg entered French politics in 1904 as a radical socialist, although his views were generally m ...

– Minister of the Interior * Louis Lucien Klotz – Minister of Finance * André Renard – Minister of Labour and Social Security Provisions *

Raoul Péret Raoul Adolphe Péret (29 November 1870 – 22 July 1942) was a French lawyer and politician. Biography Raoul Péret was born in Châtellerault (Vienne), son of a magistrate. He followed his father into the law, becoming an advocate at the ...

– Minister of Justice * Charles Chaumet – Minister of Marine * Charles Daniel-Vincent – Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts *

Fernand David Fernand David (18 October 1869, Annemasse, Haute-Savoie Haute-Savoie (; Arpitan: ''Savouè d'Amont'' or ''Hiôta-Savouè''; en, Upper Savoy) or '; it, Alta Savoia. is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of Southeastern France, b ...

– Minister of Agriculture * Maurice Long – Minister of General Supply *

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– Minister of Colonies * Albert Claveille – Minister of Public Works and Transport *

Étienne Clémentel Étienne Clémentel (11 January 1864 – 25 December 1936) was a French politician. He served as a member of the National Assembly of France from 1900 to 1919 and as French Senator from 1920 to 1936. He also served as Minister of Colonies from 2 ...

– Minister of Commerce, Industry, Posts, and Telegraphs *

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– Minister of State *

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– Minister of State *

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– Minister of State * Jean Dupuy – Minister of State Changes *27 September 1917 –

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entered the ministry as Minister of State. *23 October 1917 –

succeeded Ribot as Minister of Foreign Affairs

Painlevé's Second Ministry, 17 April – 29 October 1925

*Paul Painlevé – President of the Council and Minister of War *

– Minister of Foreign Affairs * Abraham Schrameck – Minister of the Interior *

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– Minister of Finance * Antoine Durafour – Minister of Labour, Hygiene, Welfare Work, and Social Security Provisions *

– Minister of Justice *

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– Minister of Marine *

Anatole de Monzie Anatole de Monzie (22 November 1876, Bazas, Gironde – 11 January 1947, Paris) was a French administrator, encyclopaedist ('' Encyclopédie française''), political figure and scholar. His father was a tax collector in Bazas, Gironde whe ...

– Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts. * Louis Antériou – Minister of Pensions *

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– Minister of Agriculture * Orly André-Hesse – Minister of Colonies *

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– Minister of Public Works * Charles Chaumet – Minister of Commerce and Industry Changes *11 October 1925 –

succeeded Steeg as Minister of Justice.

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succeeded Monzie as Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts.

Painlevé's Third Ministry, 29 October – 28 November 1925

*Paul Painlevé – President of the Council and Minister of Finance *

– Minister of Foreign Affairs *

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– Minister of War * Abraham Schrameck – Minister of the Interior * Georges Bonnet – Minister of Budget * Antoine Durafour – Minister of Labour, Hygiene, Welfare Work, and Social Security Provisions *

Camille Chautemps Camille Chautemps (1 February 1885 – 1 July 1963) was a French Radical politician of the Third Republic, three times President of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister). He was the father-in-law of U.S. politician and statesman Howard J. ...

– Minister of Justice *

– Minister of Marine *

– Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts * Louis Antériou – Minister of Pensions *

– Minister of Agriculture * Léon Perrier – Minister of Colonies * Anatole de Monazie – Minister of Public Works * Charles Daniel-Vincent – Minister of Commerce and Industry

Works

* ''Sur les lignes singulières des fonctions analytiques'' - 1887/''On singular lines of analytic functions''. * ''Mémoire sur les équations différentielles du premier ordre'' - 1892/''Memory on first order differential equations''. * ''Leçons sur la théorie analytique des équations différentielles'', A. Hermann (Paris), 1897/''A course on analytic theory of differential equations''. * ''Leçons sur les fonctions de variables réelles et les développements en séries de polynômes'' - 1905/''A course on real variable functions and polynomial development series''. * ''Cours de mécanique et machines'' (Paris), 1907/''A course on mechanics and machines''. * ''Cours de mécanique et machines 2'' (Paris), 1908/''A course on mechanics and machines 2''. * ''Leçons sur les fonctions définies par les équations différentielles du premier ordre'', Gauthier-Villars (Paris), 1908/''A course on functions defined by first order differential equations''. * ''L'aéroplane'', Lille, 1909/''Aeroplane''. * ''Cours de mécanique et machines'' (Paris), 1909/''A course on mechanics and machines''. * ''L'aviation'', Paris, Felix Alcan, 1910/''Aviation''. * ''Les axiomes de la mécanique, examen critique'' ; ''Note sur la propagation de la lumière'' - 1922/''Mechanics axioms, a critical study'' ; ''Notes on light spread''. * ''Leçons sur la théorie analytique des équations différentielles'', Hermann, Paris, 1897/''A course on analytical theory of differential equations''. * ''Trois mémoires de Painlevé sur la relativité'' (1921-1922)/''Painlevé's three memories on relativity''.

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Second period as French Prime Minister

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Painlevé's First Government, 12 September – 16 November 1917

Painlevé's Second Ministry, 17 April – 29 October 1925

Painlevé's Third Ministry, 29 October – 28 November 1925

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