ProofWiki:Mathematicians/Charles Émile Picard

French mathematician who made significant advances in the fields of:

• Complex Analysis
• Differential Equations
• Algebraic Topology

Son-in-law of Charles Hermite.

Nationality

French

History

• Born: 24 July 1856
• Elected to Seat 1 of the Académie Française in 1924.
• Died: 12 December 1941

Theorems

• Picard's Theorem.
• Picard's Existence Theorem.

Also see

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Charles Émile Picard": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive