This list of École Polytechnique faculty includes current and former professors of École Polytechnique, a French scientific higher education institution established during the French Revolution in 1794 in Paris and moved to Palaiseau in 1976.
Faculty
edit| Name | Department | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836) | Analysis (1807–1808) Mechanics (1809–1827)[1] |
Co-discoverer of electromagnetism | [2] |
| François Arago (1786–1853) (X1803) | Geometry (1810–1815) Analysis (1816–1829)[1] |
Mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician | [3] |
| Joseph Bertrand (1822–1900) | Analysis, Mathematics (1844–1895) | Bertrand paradox (probability), Bertrand paradox (economics) | [4] |
| Augustin Louis Cauchy (1789–1857) (X1805) | Analysis (1815–1829)[1] | Early pioneer of analysis | [5] |
| Alain Finkielkraut (born 1949) | Humanities and Social sciences | ||
| Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy (1755–1809) | Chemistry | Co-discovered iridium, co-founded modern chemical nomenclature | |
| Joseph Fourier (1768–1830) | Analysis | Fourier series, Fourier transform, Fourier's law of conduction | [6] |
| Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette (1769–1834) | Descriptive Geometry | Mathematician | [7] |
| Charles Hermite (1822–1901) | Mathematics (1869–) | Hermite polynomials, Hermite interpolation, Hermite normal form, Hermitian operators, and cubic Hermite splines are named in his honor | [8] |
| Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736–1813) | first professor of analysis at the École Polytechnique upon its opening in 1794 |
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| Claude-Louis Mathieu (1783–1875) (X1803) | Analysis (1833–1838)[1] | Mathematician and astronomer who worked on the distance of the stars | [9] |
| Gaspard Monge (1746–1818) | Descriptive Geometry | French mathematician and inventor of descriptive geometry | [10] |
| Claude-Louis Navier (1785–1836) (X1802) | Analysis (1831–1832)[1] | Major contributor to modern structural analysis | [11] |
| Paul Painlevé (1863–1933) | Mathematics | Painlevé transcendents | [12] |
| Louis Poinsot (1777–1859) (X1794) | Analysis (1809–1811)[1] | Inventor of geometrical mechanics | [13] |
| Felix Savary (1797–1841) (X1815) | Analysis (1830–1841)[1] | Astronomer who worked on double stars | [14] |
| Laurent Schwartz (1915–2002) | Mathematics (1959–1980) | Pioneer of the theory of distributions | [15] |
| Giovanni De Micheli | Institute of Electrical Engineering | Pioneer of the Network on a chip | [16] |
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f g Callot, Jean Pierre; Journau, Philippe (1982). Histoire de l'École polytechnique (in French). C. Lavauzelle. pp. 475–478. ISBN 978-2-7025-0012-5. OCLC 21339164.
- ^ "André Marie Ampère". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- ^ "François Arago". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- ^ "Joseph Louis François Bertrand". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- ^ "Augustin Louis Cauchy". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- ^ "Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- ^ "Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- ^ "Charles Hermite". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- ^ "Claude Louis Mathieu". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- ^ "Gaspard Monge". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- ^ "Claude Louis Marie Henri Navier". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- ^ "Paul Painlevé". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- ^ "Louis Poinsot". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- ^ "Felix Savary". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- ^ "Laurent Moise Schwartz". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- ^ "Giovanni De Micheli". Giovanni De Micheli at EPFL.