Jean Gaston Darboux
Jean Gaston Darboux (August 14, 1842, Nîmes – February 23, 1917, Paris) was a French mathematician. He made several important contributions to geometry and mathematical analysis (see Linear PDEs for example). He was a biographer of Henri Poincaré.
There are many things named after him:
- Darboux integral
- Darboux function
- Darboux's theorem (see Intermediate value theorem for now)
- Christoffel-Darboux identity [1]
- Christoffel-Darboux formula [2]
- Darboux's formula [3]
- Darboux vector [4]
- Euler-Darboux equation [5]
- Euler-Poisson-Darboux equation [6]
- Darboux cubic [7]
- Darboux [8] or Goursat problem [9]
External links
- A biography in Weisstein's World of Biography
- A biography at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland