List of École Polytechnique faculty
This list of École Polytechnique faculty includes current and former professors of École Polytechnique, a French scientific higher education institution established during the French Revolution in 1794 in Paris and moved to Palaiseau in 1976. In 2007, École Polytechnique became a founding member of the ParisTech group of leading Paris-area engineering schools.
Faculty
| Name | Department | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| André-Marie Ampère (1775-1836) | Analysis (1807-1808) Mecanics (1809-1827)[1] |
Co-discoverer of electromagnetism | [2] |
| François Arago (1786–1853) (X1803) | Geometry (1810-1815) Analysis (1816-1829)[1] |
Mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician | [3] |
| Augustin Louis Cauchy (1789–1857) (X1805) | Analysis (1815-1829)[1] | Early pioneer of analysis | [4] |
| Alain Finkielkraut (born 1949) | Humanities and Social sciences | ||
| Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy (1755–1809) | Chemistry | Co-discovered iridium, co-founded modern chemical nomenclature | |
| Joseph Fourier (1768–1830) | Analysis | Fourier series, Fourier transform, Fourier's law of conduction | [5] |
| Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette (1769–1834) | Descriptive Geometry | Mathematician | [6] |
| Charles Hermite (1822–1901) | Mathematics (1869-) | Hermite polynomials, Hermite interpolation, Hermite normal form, Hermitian operators, and cubic Hermite splines are named in his honor | [7] |
| Claude-Louis Mathieu (1783 - 1875) (X1803) | Analysis (1833-1838)[1] | Mathematician and astronomer who worked on the distance of the stars | [8] |
| Gaspard Monge (1746 - 1818) | Descriptive Geometry | French mathematician and inventor of descriptive geometry | [9] |
| Claude-Louis Navier (1785 - 1836) (X1802) | Analysis (1831-1832)[1] | Major contributor to modern structural analysis | [10] |
| Paul Painlevé (1863 - 1933) | Mathematics | Painlevé transcendents | [11] |
| Louis Poinsot (1777 - 1859) (X1794) | Analysis (1809-1811)[1] | Inventor of geometrical mechanics | [12] |
| Felix Savary (1797 - 1841) (X1815) | Analysis (1830-1841)[1] | Astronomer who worked on double stars | [13] |
| Laurent Schwartz (1915 - 2002) | Mathematics (1959-1980) | Pioneer of the theory of distributions | [14] |
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Callot, Jean Pierre; Journau, Philippe (1982). Histoire de l'École polytechnique (in French). C. Lavauzelle. pp. 475–478. ISBN 978-2-7025-0012-5. OCLC 21339164.
- ^ "André Marie Ampère". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- ^ "François Arago". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- ^ "Augustin Louis Cauchy". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- ^ "Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- ^ "Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- ^ "Charles Hermite". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- ^ "Claude Louis Mathieu". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- ^ "Gaspard Monge". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- ^ "Claude Louis Marie Henri Navier". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- ^ "Paul Painlevé". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- ^ "Louis Poinsot". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- ^ "Felix Savary". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- ^ "Laurent Moise Schwartz". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.