Mathematician:Maxime Bôcher

Mathematician

American mathematician who worked on differential equations, series, and algebra.

Nationality

American

History

• Born: 28 Aug 1867, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
• Died: 12 Sept 1918 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Theorems and Definitions

• Bôcher's Theorem
• Bôcher's Equation

Results named for Maxime Bôcher can be found here.

Publications

• 1891: Über die Reihenentwicklungen der Potentialtheorie (Development of the Potential Function into Series)
• 1892: On Bessel's functions of the second kind
• 1892: On a nine-point conic
• 1892: On some applications of Bessel's functions with pure imaginary index
• 1892: Note on the nine-point conic
• 1892: Some propositions concerning the geometric representation of imaginaries
• 1900: The theory of linear dependence
• 1906: Introduction to the theory of Fourier's series (Ann. Math. Vol. 7: pp. 81 – 152)  www.jstor.org/stable/1967238
• 1907: Introduction to higher algebra
• 1914: On Gibbs's Phenomenon (J. reine angew. Math. Vol. 144: pp. 41 – 47)
• 1917: Leçons sur les méthodes de Sturm dans la théorie des équations différentielles linéaires et leurs développements modernes

Sources

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