Charles Émile Picard

Charles Émile Picard was a French mathematician and university teacher born in Paris in 1856. He studied at the Lycée Henri-IV and the École Normale Supérieure. His professional career included positions at the University of Toulouse, École Normale Supérieure, École Centrale Paris, and the University of Paris. He worked primarily in mathematical analysis and mathematics, with his work location in Paris.

Picard was a member of the Royal Society, the Académie Française, the French Academy of Sciences, and the Russian Academy of Sciences. He received the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, the Poncelet Prize, and was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His notable works include the Picard–Lindelöf theorem, Picard theorem, Picard group, and Picard–Fuchs equation. He died in Paris in 1941 and is buried at Montparnasse Cemetery.