Victor Alexandre Puiseux ( French: Victor Alexandre Puiseux , 1820-1883) - French mathematician and astronomer. The father of the French astronomer Pierre Puiseux (1855-1928).
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At the end of the course in a normal school, he was a professor of mathematics at the Besancon faculty, and then successively the lecturer of a normal school, an associate astronomer at the Paris Observatory , a professor of mechanics at the Paris Faculty of Sciences, Mathematics and Astronomy at the Sorbonne, from 1868 to 1872 a member of the Bureau of Longitudes . In 1871 he was elected a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences . In 1850 he developed the theory of algebraic functions and the expansion of multivalued algebraic functions in series in fractional powers. Since 1864, together with Bertrand, he edited the journal Scientific Notes of the Higher Normal School (Annales scientifiques de l'école normale supérieuré).
Puiseux was also a passionate climber . He was probably the first to climb the main peak of Mount Mont Pelvu , which has since been called Puiseux Peak (3946 m) [3] .
A species of the Israeli gecko Ptyodactylus puiseuxi was named after him [4] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Archive for the history of mathematics MacTyutor
- ↑ Léonore database - ministère de la Culture .
- ↑ Présentation de la commune de Pelvoux Archival copy of October 13, 2011 on the Wayback Machine (fr.)
- ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp .. ("Puiseux", p. 212)
Literature
- Bobynin V.V. Puiseux, Victor-Alexander // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.