Émile Picard
Émile Picard | |
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| Born | Charles Émile Picard 24 July 1856 |
| Died | 11 December 1941 (aged 85) |
| Nationality | French |
| Alma mater | École Normale Supérieure (Paris) |
| Known for | Picard 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 |
| Awards | ForMemRS (1909) Poncelet Prize (1886) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Paris École Centrale Paris |
| Thesis | Applications des complexes lineaires a l'etude des surfaces et des courbes gauches |
| Doctoral advisor | Gaston Darboux |
| Doctoral students | Sergei 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.