Camille Jordan | |
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| Born | (1838-01-05)5 January 1838 |
| Died | 22 January 1922(1922-01-22) (aged 84) Paris |
| Alma mater | École polytechnique |
| Known for | Jordan curve theorem Jordan decomposition Jordan normal form Jordan matrix Jordan measure Jordan totient function Jordan's inequality Jordan's lemma Jordan's theorem (symmetric group) Jordan–Chevalley decomposition Jordan–Hölder theorem Jordan–Pólya numbers Jordan–Schur theorem Jordan–Schönflies theorem Bounded variation Homotopy group k-edge-connected graph Total variation |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Academic advisors | Victor Puiseux andJoseph Alfred Serret |
Marie Ennemond Camille Jordan (French:[ʒɔʁdɑ̃]; 5 January 1838 – 22 January 1922) was a French mathematician, known both for his foundational work ingroup theory and for histextbookCours d'analyse de l'École polytechnique.
Jordan was born inLyon and educated at theÉcole polytechnique. He was an engineer by profession; later in life he taught at the École polytechnique and theCollège de France, where he had a reputation for eccentric choices of notation.
He is remembered now by name in a number of results:
Jordan's work did much to bringGalois theory into the mainstream. He also investigated theMathieu groups, the first examples ofsporadic groups. HisTraité des substitutions, onpermutation groups, was published in 1870; this treatise won for Jordan the 1870prix Poncelet.[1] He was an Invited Speaker of theICM in 1920 inStrasbourg.[2]
Theasteroid25593 Camillejordan andInstitut Camille Jordan [fr] are named in his honour.
Camille Jordan is not to be confused with thegeodesistWilhelm Jordan (Gauss–Jordan elimination) or the physicistPascual Jordan (Jordan algebras).
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