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Joseph Liouville
Joseph Liouville was a French mathematician who worked on a number of different fields in mathematics, including number theory, complex analysis, and mathematical physics. Many mathematical concepts are named after him, including Liouville's theorem in Hamiltonian mechanics and Liouville's theorem for complex numbers.
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Born 24 March 1809 · Died 8 September 1882 · Q214549
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1961· 1 entry
Exploiting the mean-value property of harmonic functions
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1923· 1 entry
By Harold Jeffreys, and again in 1926 by Gregor Wentzel, Hans Kramers, Léon Brillouin, who were studying the Schrödinger equation of quantum mechanics
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1882· 1 entry
Died 1882-09-08.
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1879· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (1879).
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1870· 1 entry
Career landmark: president of the French Academy of Sciences (1870–1870).
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1861· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1861).
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1853· 1 entry
Was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society
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1851· 2 entries
Secured a chair in rational mechanics at the Faculté des Sciences in 1857
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Was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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1850· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1850).
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1848· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (1848–1849).
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1846· 1 entry
After which the Galois theory attracted the attention of many mathematicians, among them, Paolo Ruffini, Joseph-Alfred Serret, and Augustin-Louis Cauchy
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1844· 1 entry
Liouville was the first to prove the existence of transcendental numbers
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1839· 1 entry
And became an associate member of the Bureau des Longitudes
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1838· 1 entry
Liouville published a method for establishing the existence of solutions to ordinary differential equations of the second order involving successive approximations, now attached to the name of Émile Picard, who gave a mo
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1837· 1 entry
Liouville sought approximate solutions to linear second-order differential equations with spatially varying coefficients and obtained, in modern language, an asymptotic series
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1835· 1 entry
Liouville established the existence of non-elementary integrals and a criterion for integration in finite terms, that is, in terms of elementary functions
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1830· 1 entry
Studied at École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (1827–1830).
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1827· 1 entry
Studied at École polytechnique (1825–1827).
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1825· 1 entry
Studied at Lycée Saint-Louis (1825).
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1809· 1 entry
Born 1809-03-24.
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