Émile Picard

Émile Picard
Born
Charles Émile Picard

(1856-07-24)24 July 1856
Died11 December 1941(1941-12-11) (aged 85)
NationalityFrench
Alma materÉcole Normale Supérieure (Paris)
Known forPicard functor
Picard group
Picard horn
Picard modular group
Picard modular surface
Picard theorem
Picard variety
Picard–Lefschetz formula
Picard–Lindelöf theorem
Picard–Vessiot theory
Picard–Fuchs equation
Painlevé transcendents
AwardsForMemRS (1909)
Poncelet Prize (1886)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Paris
École Centrale Paris
Thesis Applications des complexes lineaires a l'etude des surfaces et des courbes gauches
Doctoral advisorGaston Darboux
Doctoral studentsSergei Bernstein
Paul Dubreil
Jacques Hadamard
Gaston Julia
Traian Lalescu
Philippe Le Corbeiller
Paul Painlevé
Mihailo Petrović
Simion Stoilow
Ernest Vessiot
Henri Villat
André Weil
Stanisław Zaremba

Charles Émile Picard FRS(For) FRSE (French: [ʃaʁl emil pikaʁ]; 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.