Charles emile picard biography

Picard made his most important contributions in the fields of analysis, function theory, differential equations, and analytic geometry.
Charles-Émile Picard was a French mathematician whose theories did much to advance research in analysis, algebraic geometry, and mechanics.
The mathematician Émile Picard was born in Paris on July 24, 1856.

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Born

24 July 1856
Paris, France

Died

11 December 1941
Paris, France

Summary

Émile Picard worked in algebraic geometry as well as elasticity, heat and electricity.

Biography

Émile Picard's father was the manager of a silk factory who died during the siege of Paris in 1870. The siege was a consequence of the Franco-Prussian War which began on 19 July 1870. It went badly for France and on 19 September 1870 the Germans began a siege of Paris. This was a desperate time for the inhabitants of the town who killed their horses, cats and dogs for food. It was during this siege that Émile's father died. Paris surrendered on 28 January 1871 and The Treaty of Frankfurt, signed on 10 May 1871, was a humiliation for France.

Picard's mother, the daughter of a medical doctor, was put in an extremely difficult position when her husband died. As well as Émile, she had a second young son, and in order to support them through their education she had to find employment. Only her determination to give her sons a good start, despite the tragedy, allowed Émile to re

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Charles Picard

For the mathematician Charles Émile Picard, see Émile Picard.

Charles Picard (7 June 1883 – 15 December 1965) was a prominent Classical archaeologist and historian of ancient Greek art. He is best known for his multi-volume, monumental survey, Manuel d'archéologie grecque: La sculpture. Volume I (7-6th centuries BCE), was published in 1935. He completed the second fascicule of Volume IV (4th century BCE) in 1963. Picard was elected member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in 1932.

His children were the historian Gilbert Charles-Picard and Yvonne Picard, a member of the French Resistance, who was murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp in 1943.

Sources

Raymond Lebègue, Éloge funèbre de M. Charles Picard, membre de l'Académie, Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 110e année, No 1, 1966 (pp. 1–6) (online edition)
Ève Gran-Aymerich, Les chercheurs de passé, Editions du CNRS, 2007 (pp. 1058–1059)

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Émile Picard

French mathematician (1856–1941)

Charles Émile PicardFRS(For)^[1]FRSE (French:[ʃaʁlemilpikaʁ]; 24 July 1856 – 11 December 1941) was a French mathematician. He was elected the fifteenth member to occupy seat 1 of the Académie française in 1924.^[2]

Life

He was born in Paris on 24 July 1856 and educated there at the Lycée Henri-IV. He then studied mathematics at the École Normale Supérieure.^[3]

Picard's mathematical papers, textbooks, and many popular writings exhibit an extraordinary range of interests, as well as an impressive mastery of the mathematics of his time. Picard's little theorem states that every nonconstant entire function takes every value in the complex plane, with perhaps one exception. Picard's great theorem states that an analytic function with an essential singularity takes every value infinitely often, with perhaps one exception, in any neighborhood of the singularity. He made important contributions in the theory of differential equations, including work on Picard–Vessiot theory, Painlevé transce