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Jean Gaston Darboux
Jean-Gaston Darboux FAS MIF FRS FRSE was a French mathematician.
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science · French mathematician (1842–1917) · mathematician · university teacher · writer · also Jean Gaston Darboux, Darboux
Born 14 August 1842 · Died 23 February 1917 · Q164784
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1917· 1 entry
Died 1917-02-23.
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1916· 1 entry
Won Sylvester Medal (1916).
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1910· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour (1910).
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1908· 1 entry
Was a plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Rome
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1902· 2 entries
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1902).
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Was elected to the Royal Society and the American Philosophical Society; in 1916, he received the Sylvester Medal from the Society
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1892· 1 entry
Was awarded honorary membership of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, and in 1900, he was appointed the academy's permanent secretary of its Mathematics section
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1884· 1 entry
Darboux was elected to the Académie des Sciences
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1880· 1 entry
An institute that aimed at training female educators and ran parallel to the École Normale Supérieure
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1878· 1 entry
Career landmark: president of the Mathematical Society of France (1878–1878).
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1876· 1 entry
Awarded Grand prix des sciences mathématiques (1876).
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1875· 1 entry
Awarded Poncelet Prize (1875).
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1872· 1 entry
Darboux married the Beauvaisian milliner Amélie 'Célina' Carbonnier (1848–1911), daughter of Charles Louis Carbonnier, tailor, and Marie Victorine Anastase Hènocq
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1870· 1 entry
Co-founded the journal Bulletin des sciences mathématiques et astronomiques, called "Darboux's Journal" by his contemporary mathematicians
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1866· 1 entry
Studied at École Normale Supérieure (1861–1866).
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1861· 1 entry
Studied at Lycée Joffre (1859–1861).
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1859· 1 entry
Studied at Lycée Alphonse Daudet (1859).
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1842· 1 entry
Born 1842-08-14.
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