Camille jordan mathematician
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Jordan, Camille
(b. Lyons, France, 5 January 1838; d. Paris, France, 22 January 1921)
Mathematica.
Jordan was born into a well-to-do family.
One of his granduncles (also named Camille Jordan) was a fairly well-known politician who took part in many events from the French Revolution in 1789 to the beginning of the Bourbon restoration; a cousin, Alexis Jordan, is known in botany as the discoverer of “smaller species” which still bear his name (“jordanons”).
Jordan’s father, an engineer, was a graduate of the école Polytechique; his mother was a sister of the painter Pierre Puvis de Chavannes.
Camille jordan mathematician
A brilliant student, Jordan followed the usual career of French mathematicians from Cauchy to Poincaré: at seventeen he entered the ècole Polytechnique and was an engineer (at least nominally) until 1885. That Profession left him ample time for mathematical research, and most of his 120 papers were written before he retired as an engineer.
From 1873 until his retirement in 1912 he taugh