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 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.

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