Jean Gaston Darboux

Jean-Gaston Darboux
Jean-Gaston Darboux
Born(1842-08-14)14 August 1842
Nîmes, France
Died23 February 1917(1917-02-23) (aged 74)
Paris, France
Alma materÉcole Normale Supérieure
AwardsSylvester Medal (1916)
ForMemRS (1902)
Poncelet Prize (1875)
Scientific career
ThesisSur les surfaces orthogonales (1866)
Doctoral advisor
Michel Chasles
Doctoral students
Émile Borel
Élie Cartan
Édouard Goursat
Émile Picard
Thomas Stieltjes
Gheorghe Țițeica
Stanisław Zaremba
Other notable students
Gaston Milhaud
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Jean-Gaston Darboux FAS MIF FRS FRSE (French: [daʁbu]; 14 August 1842 – 23 February 1917) was a French mathematician.