Jean-Gaston Darboux (August 14, 1842, Nîmes – February 23, 1917, Paris) was a French mathematician.
Darboux made several important contributions to geometry and mathematical analysis (see linear PDEs for example). He was a biographer of Henri Poincaré and he edited the Selected Works of Joseph Fourier.
Darboux received his Ph.D. from the École Normale Supérieure in 1866. His thesis, written under the direction of Michel Chasles, was titled Sur les surfaces orthogonales. In 1884, Darboux was elected to the Académie des Sciences. In 1900, he was appointed the Academy's permanent secretary of its Mathematics section.
Among his students were Émile Borel, Élie Cartan, Gheorghe Ţiţeica and Stanisław Zaremba.
In 1902, he was elected to the Royal Society; in 1916, he received the Sylvester Medal from the Society.
There are many things named after him:
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1887-96. Leçons sur la théorie générale des surfaces et les applications géométriques du calcul infinitésimal. Gauthier-Villars:
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| NAME | Darboux, Jean-Gaston |
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| DATE OF BIRTH | August 14, 1842 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nîmes, France |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 23, 1917 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Paris, France |
