Mathematician:Charles de la Vallée Poussin
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Mathematician
Belgian mathematician famous for proving the Prime Number Theorem, independently of Jacques Salomon Hadamard in $1896$.
Nationality
Belgian
History
- Born: 14 August 1866 in Louvain, Belgium
- Died: 2 March 1962 in Louvain, Belgium
Theorems and Definitions
- The Hadamard-de la Vallée-Poussin Constant (with Jacques Salomon Hadamard), also known as:
Definitions of concepts named for Charles de la Vallée Poussin can be found here.
Publications
- 1903: Cours d'analyse (Volume 1)
- 1909: Cours d'analyse (Volume 1) (2nd ed.)
- 1914: Cours d'analyse (Volume 1) (3rd ed.)
- 1921: Cours d'analyse (Volume 1) (4th ed.)
- 1906: Cours d'analyse (Volume 2)
- 1912: Cours d'analyse (Volume 2) (2nd ed.)
- 1922: Cours d'analyse (Volume 2) (4th ed.)
- 1916: Lebesgue integrals: Set functions: Baire classes
- 1949: Le potential logarithmique
Also known as
Full name: Charles-Jean Étienne Gustave Nicolas, Baron de la Vallée Poussin.
Some sources hyphenate variously, for example: Charles-Jean de la Vallée-Poussin.
Variants on the capitalisation of the small words can be seen, for example: Charles-Jean De La Vallée-Poussin
Sources
- John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Charles de la Vallée Poussin": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Vallée-Poussin, Charles-Jean de la (1866-1962)
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Vallée-Poussin, Charles-Jean de la (1866-1962)
- 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Vallée-Poussin, Charles-Jean De La (1866-1962)