Mathematician:Paul Painlevé

Mathematician

French mathematician who worked on differential equations and the emerging new physics.

Later in life became Prime Minister of France.

Nationality

French

History

• Born: 5 December 1863 in Paris, France
• Died: 29 October 1933 in Paris, France

Theorems and Definitions

• Painlevé Property
• Painlevé Transcendent
• Painlevé-Kuratowski Convergence
• Painlevé Conjecture

Results named for Paul Painlevé can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Paul Painlevé can be found here.

Publications

• 1900: Memoire sur les équations différentielles dont l'intégrale générale est uniforme (Bull. Soc. Math. France Vol. 28: pp. 201 – 261)

• 1902: Sur les équations différentielles du second ordre et d'ordre supérieur dont l'intégrale générale est uniforme (Acta Math. Vol. 25: pp. 1 – 85)

Sources

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