Mathematician:Marie Ennemond Camille Jordan
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Mathematician
French mathematician who founded much of the field of group theory.
Also wrote the influential textbook Cours d'Analyse.
- Not to be confused with Mathematician:Wilhelm Jordan.
Nationality
French
History
- Born: January 5, 1838, La Croix-Rousse, Lyon, France
- 1885: Became editor of the Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées.
- Died: January 22, 1922, Paris, France
Theorems and Definition
- Jordan Curve
- Jordan Decomposition (also known as a Hahn-Jordan Decomposition with Hans Hahn)
- Jordan Normal Form
- Jordan Matrix
- Jordan Measure
- Jordan Totient Function
- Jordan-Chevalley Decomposition (with Claude Chevalley)
- Jordan-Hölder Theorem (with Otto Ludwig Hölder)
- Jordan-Schönflies Theorem (with Arthur Moritz Schoenflies)
- Jordan-Schur Theorem (with Issai Schur)
Results named for Marie Ennemond Camille Jordan can be found here.
Definitions of concepts named for Marie Ennemond Camille Jordan can be found here.
Publications
- 1861-1869: Mémoire sur le Nombre des Valeurs des Fonctions
- 1866: Recherches sur les Polyèdres
- 1870: Traité des Substitutions et des Équations Algébraiques
- 1909: Cours d'Analyse de l'École Polytechnique:
- 1. Calcul Différentiel
- 2. Calcul Intégral
- 3. Équations Différentielles
Also known as
Usually referred to as Camille Jordan.
Some sources hyphenate the forenames: Marie-Ennemond-Camille Jordan.
Sources
- John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Marie Ennemond Camille Jordan": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Jordan, Camille (1838-1922)
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Jordan, Camille (1838-1922)
- 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Jordan, (Marie-Ennemond-) Camille (1838-1922)