Jean Gaston Darboux

Jean-Gaston Darboux
Jean-Gaston Darboux
Born(1842-08-14)14 August 1842
Died23 February 1917(1917-02-23) (aged 74)
Paris, France
Alma materEcole Normale Supérieure (in Paris)
AwardsSylvester Medal (1916)
ForMemRS (1902)
Poncelet Prize (1875)
Scientific career
ThesisSur les surfaces orthogonales (1866)
Doctoral advisorMichel Chasles[1]
Doctoral studentsÉmile Borel
Élie Cartan
Édouard Goursat
Émile Picard
Thomas Stieltjes
Gheorghe Țițeica
Stanisław Zaremba

Jean-Gaston Darboux FAS MIF FRS FRSE (14 August 1842 – 23 February 1917) was a French mathematician.[2]

  1. ^ Jean Gaston Darboux at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ Eisenhart, Luther P. (1918). "Darboux's contribution to geometry". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 24 (5): 227–237. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1918-03052-8. MR 1560051.