- Jules Tannery
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name = Jules Tannery
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caption = Jules Tannery (1848-1910). Photo by A. Gerschel & Sons (c. 1866).
birth_date = birth date|1848|03|24|mf=y
birth_place =Mantes-sur-Seine ,France
death_date = death date and age|1910|12|11|1848|03|24|mf=y
death_place =Paris ,France
residence =France
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nationality = French
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field =Mathematician
work_institution =École Normale Supérieure Université de Paris Sorbonne
alma_mater =École Normale Supérieure
doctoral_advisor =Charles Hermite
doctoral_students =Albert Châtelet Jacques Hadamard
known_for = Philosophy of mathematics
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influences =
influenced =Paul Tannery Paul Painlevé Jules Drach Émile Borel Élie Cartan
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religion =Roman Catholic , though had a religious crisis in the 1870s.
footnotes = Brother ofPaul Tannery
Jules Tannery (
March 24 ,1848 –December 11 ,1910 ) was a Frenchmathematician who notably studied underCharles Hermite and was the PhD advisor ofJacques Hadamard .Under Hermite, he received is doctorate in 1874 for his thesis "Propriétés des Intégrales des Équations Différentielle Linéaires à Coefficients Variables."
He discovered a surface of the fourth order of which all the geodesic lines are algebraic. He was not an inventor, however, but essentially a critic and methodologist. He once remarked, "Mathematicians are so used to their symbols and have so much fun playing with them, that it is sometimes necessary to take their toys away from them in order to oblige them to think."
He notably influenced
Paul Painlevé ,Jules Drach , andÉmile Borel to take up science.His efforts were mainly directed to the study of the mathematical foundations and of the philosophical ideas implied in mathematical thinking.
References
* George Sarton, "Jules, and Marie Tannery (with a note on Grégoire Wyrouboff)," "Isis", Vol. 38, No. 1/2. (Nov., 1947), pp. 33-51.
External links
* [http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Tannery_Jules.html Tannery's Mactutor biography]
* [http://www.genealogy.ams.org/id.php?id=34260 Tannery's math genealogy]
* [http://www.pims.math.ca/~hoek/teageo/Tannery/ Tannery on geometry]
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