Marie Georges Humbert

Marie Georges Humbert
Born (1859-01-07)7 January 1859
Paris, France
Died 22 January 1921(1921-01-22) (aged 62)
Paris, France
Residence France
Children Pierre Humbert
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics

Marie Georges Humbert (7 January 1859 Paris, France – 22 January 1921 Paris, France) was a French mathematician who worked on Kummer surfaces and the Appell–Humbert theorem and introduced Humbert surfaces. His son was the mathematician Pierre Humbert. He won the Poncelet Prize of the Académie des Sciences in 1891.

He studied at the École Polytechnique. He was the brother-in-law of Charles Mangin.

Works

References

  1. Birkhoff, G. D. (1934). "Review: Oeuvres de Georges Humbert". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 40 (7): 518. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1934-05879-8.
  2. Hedrick, E. R. (1905). "Review: Cours d'Analyse, by G. Humbert". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 11 (6): 319–329. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1905-01214-3.
  • O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Marie Georges Humbert", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews .
  • Marie Georges Humbert at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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