Mathematician:Charles Émile Picard

Mathematician

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:
  • Little Picard Theorem
  • Big Picard Theorem (also known as Great Picard Theorem)

• Picard's Existence Theorem (also known as Picard-Lindelöf Theorem for Ernst Leonard Lindelöf)
• Picard-Lefschetz Formula (with Solomon Lefschetz)

• Picard Functor
• Picard Group
• Picard Horn
• Picard Modular Group
• Picard Modular Surface
• Picard Variety

• Picard-Fuchs Equation (with Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs)

Results named for Charles Émile Picard can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Charles Émile Picard can be found here.

Sources

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