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Bocher may refer to:

  • Joan Bocher (died 1550), English Anabaptist burned at the stake for heresy
  • Maxime Bôcher (1867–1918), American mathematician who published about 100 papers on differential equations, series, and algebra
  • Tyge W. Böcher (1909–1983), Danish botanist, evolutionary biologist, plant ecologist and phytogeographer

See also

  • Bôcher Memorial Prize, founded by the American Mathematical Society in 1923 in memory of Maxime Bôcher
  • Bôcher's theorem can refer to one of two theorems proved by the American mathematician Maxime Bôcher