Mathematician:Marie Ennemond Camille Jordan

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 Arc
• Jordan Canonical Form

• Jordan Content (also known as Jordan Measure)
  • Outer Jordan Content (also known as Outer Jordan Measure)
  • Inner Jordan Content

• Jordan Curve
• Jordan Decomposition (also known as a Hahn-Jordan Decomposition with Hans Hahn)
• Jordan Matrix
• Jordan Normal Form
• Jordan Totient Function

• Jordan Curve Theorem
• Jordan Decomposition Theorem
• Jordan's Inequality
• Jordan's Lemma
• Jordan Polygon Parity Lemma
• Jordan Polygon Theorem

• 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 Algébriques

• 1882-1887: 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)