Mathematician:François Joseph Servois

Mathematician

French mathematician and military officer.

Worked in the fields of projective geometry, functional analysis and complex analysis.

First introduced (in $1814$) the concept of commutativity which till then had generally been taken for granted in all fields of mathematics.

Nationality

French

History

• Born: 19 July 1768, Mont-de-Laval, Doubs, France
• Died: 17 April 1847, Mont-de-Laval, Doubs, France

Theorems and Definitions

• Commutativity

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "François Joseph Servois": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive