Liouville
| Joseph Liouville | |
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Joseph Liouville
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| Born |
24 March 1809 Saint-Omer |
| Died | 8 September 1882 (aged 73) Paris |
| Nationality | French |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions |
École Centrale Paris École Polytechnique |
| Alma mater | École Polytechnique |
| Doctoral advisor |
Siméon Poisson Louis Jacques Thénard |
| Doctoral students | Eugène Charles Catalan |
Joseph Liouville (/ˈdʒoʊzəf ˌliuːˈvɪl/; French: [ʒɔzɛf ljuvil]) FRS FRSE FAS (24 March 1809 – 8 September 1882) was a French mathematician.
He was born in Saint-Omer in France on 24 March 1809.
Liouville graduated from the École Polytechnique in 1827. After some years as an assistant at various institutions including the École Centrale Paris, he was appointed as professor at the École Polytechnique in 1838. He obtained a chair in mathematics at the Collège de France in 1850 and a chair in mechanics at the Faculté des Sciences in 1857.
Besides his academic achievements, he was very talented in organisational matters. Liouville founded the Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées which retains its high reputation up to today, in order to promote other mathematicians' work. He was the first to read, and to recognize the importance of, the unpublished work of Évariste Galois which appeared in his journal in 1846. Liouville was also involved in politics for some time, and he became a member of the Constituting Assembly in 1848. However, after his defeat in the legislative elections in 1849, he turned away from politics.
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