Henri Padé
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French mathematician (1863–1953)
"Padé" redirects here. For the village in Serbia, see
École Normale SupérieureKnown for Padé approximant
Padé table Scientific career Fields Mathematics Thesis Sur la representation approchee d'une fonction par des fractions rationelles Doctoral advisor Charles Hermite
Padé table
Henri Eugène Padé (French: Padé approximation techniques for functions using rational functions.
Education and career
Padé studied at
École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He then spent a year at Leipzig University and the University of Göttingen, where he studied under Felix Klein and Hermann Schwarz
.
In 1890 Padé returned to France, where he taught in
Université Lille Nord de France, where he succeeded Émile Borel as a professor of rational mechanics at École Centrale de Lille
.
Padé taught at
Université de Poitiers. He became recteur
of Académie de Besançon and Dijon in 1923. He later became Recteur of Académie de Aix-Marseilles until he retired in 1934.
External links
- Media related to Henri Padé at Wikimedia Commons
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Henri Padé", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- Henri Padé at the Mathematics Genealogy Project