Victor Puiseux

Biography

It is allowed in 1837 with the National university and received with the contest of aggregation of sciences in 1840. It obtains the science doctorate mathematics in 1841 and he is mathematics professor with the college of Rennes until 1845. He obtains then a pulpit of mathematics to the Faculty of Science of Besancon, then he is named university lecturer at the National university in 1849. He is also in charge of substitution to the Faculty of Science of Paris and the Collège de France. He is in charge of the examinations of admission to the Polytechnic school in 1853 and 1854. In 1855, it is named astronomer associated with the Observatoire of Paris, load which it occupies until 1859. He is member of the Bureau of longitudes. In 1857, it succeeds Augustin Louis Cauchy with the pulpit of astronomy mathematics of the Faculty of Science, and it is replaced in 1868 by Felix Tisserand.

He collaborates with Cauchy on number of his work, of which functions with complex variable.

Shining in analysis, it introduced new methods into its work on the algebraic functions (example: the series of Puiseux), and contributed to the advance of the celestial mechanics. July 10th 1871, it was unanimously elected member of the Academy of Science, section geometry.

Large mountaineer, it also gave his name to a point in the the Alps, the Puiseux point (: 3946 m), in the solid mass of the Mount Pelvoux, which it climbed in 1848. He discovered whereas the Pelvoux Mount was not the highest summit of the solid mass of the Jewel cases, the Barre of the Jewel cases being higher (: 4102 m).

His/her son Pierre Puiseux is also mathematician.

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