Pierre Boutroux

Pierre Léon Boutroux
Born (1880-12-06)6 December 1880
Paris, France
Died 15 August 1922(1922-08-15) (aged 41)
Residence France
Fields Mathematics

Pierre Léon Boutroux (6 December 1880 – 15 August 1922) was a French mathematician and historian of science. Boutroux is chiefly known for his work in the history and philosophy of mathematics.

Biography

He was born in Paris on 6 December 1880 into a well connected family of the French intelligentsia. His father was the philosopher Émile Boutroux. His mother was Aline Catherine Eugénie Poincaré, sister of the scientist and mathematician Henri Poincaré. A cousin of Aline, Raymond Poincaré was to be President of France.

He occupied the mathematics chair at Princeton University from 1913 until 1914.[1] 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 died on 15 August 1922, aged 41 years.

Works

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.

Further reading

References

  1. ↑ "Princeton Gets Prof. Boutroux". Christian Science Monitor. April 26, 1913. Retrieved 2010-11-09. Prof. Pierre Boutroux of Poitiers, France, will join the faculty of Princeton University next fall, according to a cable message received here Friday by Dr. Hibben.
  2. ↑ Moore, C. L. E. (1910). "Review: Leçons sur les Fonctions définies par les Équations différentielles du premier Ordre. Par Pierre Boutroux" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 16 (6): 318–320. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1910-01911-x.
  3. ↑ Shaw, James Byrnie (1914). "Review: Les Principes de l'Analyse mathématique. Par Pierre Boutroux. Tome premiere" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 24 (1): 32–36. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1914-02569-8.
  4. ↑ Young, J. W. (1923). "Review: L'Idéal Scientifique des Mathématiciens dans l'Antiquité et dans les Temps Modernes. By Pierre Boutroux" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 29 (10): 470–473. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1923-03800-7.


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