Mathematician:Charles Émile Picard

Mathematician

French mathematician who made significant advances in the fields of:

• Complex Analysis
• Differential Equations
• Algebraic Topology

Son-in-law of Charles Hermite.

Nationality

French

History

• Born: 24 July 1856
• Elected to Seat 1 of the Académie Française in 1924.
• Died: 12 December 1941

Theorems

• Picard's Theorem:
  • Little Picard Theorem
  • Big Picard Theorem (also known as Great Picard Theorem)

• Picard's Existence Theorem (also known as Picard-Lindelöf Theorem for Ernst Leonard Lindelöf)
• Picard-Lefschetz Formula (with Solomon Lefschetz)

• Picard Functor
• Picard Group
• Picard Horn
• Picard Iteration
• Picard Modular Group
• Picard Modular Surface
• Picard Variety

• Picard-Fuchs Equation (with Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs)

Results named for Charles Émile Picard can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Charles Émile Picard can be found here.

Publications

• 1891 -- 1896: Traité d'analyse ("Treatise on analysis") (3 volumes)

• 1897: Théorie des fonctions algébriques de deux variables indépendantes ("Theory of algebraic functions of two independent variables") (Volume 1) (with George Simart)
• 1906: Théorie des fonctions algébriques de deux variables indépendantes ("Theory of algebraic functions of two independent variables") (Volume 2) (with George Simart)

Also known as

Usually known as Émile Picard.

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Charles Émile Picard": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Picard iteration
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Picard iteration