Marie Georges Humbert

Marie Georges Humbert
Born	(1859-01-07)7 January 1859 Paris, France
Died	22 January 1921(1921-01-22) (aged 62) Paris, France
Children	Pierre Humbert
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics

Marie Georges Humbert (7 January 1859 Paris, France – 22 January 1921 Paris, France) was a French mathematician who worked on Kummer surfaces and the Appell–Humbert theorem and introduced Humbert surfaces. His son was the mathematician Pierre Humbert. He won the Poncelet Prize of the Académie des Sciences in 1891.

He studied at the École Polytechnique. He was the brother-in-law of Charles Mangin.

Works

• Application de la théorie des fonctions fuchsiennes à l'étude des courbes algébriques, Journal de mathematiques pure et appliquées, 4th Series, Vol. 2, 1886, pp. 239–328, Online, pdf^{[permanent dead link]}
• Pierre Humbert, Gaston Julia (Editor): Georges Humbert- Oeuvres, Gauthier-Villars 1929^[1]
• Cours d'Analyse, 2 volumes, Gauthier-Villars 1902, 1904 (Lecturers given at École Polytechnique)^[2]

References

External links

• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Marie Georges Humbert", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
• Marie Georges Humbert at the Mathematics Genealogy Project