Mathematician:Charles Pisot

Mathematician

French mathematician best known as one of the primary investigators of the Pisot-Vijayaraghavan numbers.

Argued as being a significant influence in the development of Number Theory.

Nationality

French

History

• Born: 2 March 1910 in Obernai, Alsace-Moselle, Germany (now France)
• Died: 7 March 1984 in Paris, France

Theorems and Definitions

• Pisot-Vijayaraghavan Number (with Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan)
• Pisot dth Root Conjecture

Results named for Charles Pisot can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Charles Pisot can be found here.

Publications

• 1936: Sur une propriété caractéristique de certains entiers algébraique
• 1936: Sur certaines propriétés caractéristiques des nombres algébraique
• 1937: Sur la répartition modulo 1 des puissances successive d'un même nombre
• 1937: Sur la répartition modulo 1
• 1938: La répartition modulo un et les nombres algébriques (PhD thesis)
• 1958: Mathématiques générales (with Mark Zamansky)
• 1960: Les Nombres entiers, leurs problèmes et leurs mystères, etc

Also known as

Known as Karl Pisot after having moved to Germany early in the second World War.

Sources

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