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Joseph Liouville
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Joseph Liouville was a French mathematician, politician, engineer, and professor. Born in Saint-Omer in 1809, he died in Paris in 1882. He was educated at the Lycée Saint-Louis, the École polytechnique, and the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. His professional work focused on mathematical analysis, mathematics, algebra, and differential calculus. He served as a member of the French National Assembly and worked at the École polytechnique, the Collège de France, the Bureau des Longitudes, and the Journal de Mathematiques Pures et Appliquees.
Liouville was a member of the Royal Society, the Société Philomathique de Paris, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and the French Academy of Sciences. He received the Commander and Officer distinctions of the Legion of Honour. His doctoral advisors were Siméon Denis Poisson and Louis Jacques Thénard, and his doctoral students included Nikolai Bugaev and Eugène Charles Catalan. He is recognized in the Royal Society collection and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1809
- Died
- 1882
- Works
- 83
Top works
- Rapport sur les travaux de M. Alexis Perrey, relatifs aux tremblements de la terre
- Théorèmes généraux sur l'attraction des corps
- Journal de mathématiques pures et appliquées, ou, Recueil mensuel de mémoires sur les diverses parties des mathématiques
- Journal de mathématiques pures et appliquées
- Mémoire sur les figures ellipsoïdales à trois axes inégaux, qui peuvent convenir à l'équilibre d'une masse liquide homogène, douée d'un mouvement de rotation
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1809-03-24 ) 24 March 1809, Saint-Omer , First French Empire
- Died
- 8 September 1882 (1882-09-08) (aged 73), Paris , French Third Republic
- Alma mater
- École Polytechnique
- Known for
- See full list
- Fields
- Mathematics physics
- Institutions
- École Centrale Paris , École Polytechnique
- Thesis
- Sur le développement des fonctions ou parties de fonctions en séries de sinus et de cosinus, dont on fait usage dans un grand nombre de questions de Mécanique et de Physique (1836)
- Doctoral advisor
- Siméon Denis Poisson Louis Jacques Thénard
- Doctoral students
- Eugène Charles Catalan Nikolai Bugaev
- Other notable students
- Charles Hermite
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Joseph
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Saint-Omer
- Place of death
- Paris
- Occupation
- astronomer
- Educated at
- Lycée Saint-Louis
- Employer
- Bureau des Longitudes
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- French
- Doctoral advisor
- Louis Jacques Thénard
- Doctoral student
- Eugène Charles Catalan
- Field of work
- number theory
- Image
- Photo of Joseph Liouville 1868.jpg
- Work location
- Paris
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- date of birth
- 1809-03-24
- date of death
- 1882-09-08
- Commons category
- Joseph Liouville
- name in native language
- Joseph Liouville
- P8168
- Severin Kiefer
- place of burial
- Montparnasse Cemetery
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
Joseph Liouville (/ˌliːuˈvɪl/ LEE-oo-VIL; French: [ʒozɛf ljuvil]; 24 March 1809 – 8 September 1882) was a French mathematician who worked on a number of different fields in mathematics, including number theory, complex analysis, and mathematical physics.
The crater Liouville on the Moon is named after him.
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