Mathematician:Marie Ennemond Camille Jordan

Camille Jordan was a French mathematician who founded much of the field of group theory.

Also wrote the influential textbook Cours d'Analyse.

Nationality
French

History

 * Born: January 5, 1838, La Croix-Rousse, Lyon, France
 * 1885: Became editor of the Journal de Mathématiques Pure et Appliquées.
 * Died: January 22, 1922, Paris, France

Theorems and Definition

 * Jordan Arc
 * Jordan Curve
 * Jordan-Chevalley Decomposition (with Claude Chevalley)
 * Jordan-Hölder Theorem (with Otto Ludwig Hölder)
 * Jordan-Schönflies Theorem (with Arthur Moritz Schoenflies)
 * Jordan Curve Theorem
 * Jordan Normal Form
 * Jordan Matrix
 * Jordan Measure
 * Jordan Totient Function
 * Jordan-Schur Theorem (with Issai Schur)
 * Gauss-Jordan Elimination (with Carl Friedrich Gauss)

Books and Papers

 * 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