Paul Jean Joseph Barbarin Explained

Paul Jean Joseph Barbarin
Birth Date:20 October 1855
Birth Place:Tarbes, Hautes-Pyrénées, Occitania, France
Nationality:French
Occupation:Mathematician
Alma Mater:École polytechnique
École normale supérieure

Paul Jean Joseph Barbarin (20 October 1855, Tarbes – 28 September 1931) was a French mathematician, specializing in geometry.[1] [2]

Education and career

Barbarin studied mathematics for a brief time at the École Polytechnique, but changed, at the age of 19, to the École Normale Supérieure, where he studied mathematics under Briot, Bouquet, Tannery, and Darboux. After graduation, Barbarin became a professor of mathematics at the Lyceum of Nice and then at the School of St.-Cyr of the Lyceum of Toulon. In 1891 he became a professor at the Lyceum of Bordeaux, where he taught for many years.[1] At the time of his death he was a professor at the École Spéciale des Travaux Publics in Paris.[2]

In 1903 the Kazan Physical and Mathematical Society of Kazan State University awarded the Lobachevsky Prize to Hilbert but the Society cited Barbarin as the second choice among the nominees considered.[1] When Hilbert received the Society's award, Henri Poincaré contributed a report on the work of Hilbert, and Professor Mansion of Ghent contributed a report on the work of Barbarin. In a 1904 article published in the journal Science, G. B. Halsted gave an English summary of the two French reports.[3]

Athanase Papadopoulos edited and translated Lobachevsky's Pangéométrie ou Précis de géométrie fondée sur une théorie générale et rigoureuse des parallèles (Pangeometry) and provided a footnote concerning Barbarin:[4]

Barbarin was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1928 in Bologna.

Selected publications

Articles

Books

Notes and References

  1. Halsted, G. B.. Biographical Sketch of Paul Barbarin. The American Mathematical Monthly. November 1908. 15. 11. 195–196. 10.1080/00029890.1908.11997455.
  2. Notes. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 1932. 38. 7. 481–485. 10.1090/S0002-9904-1932-05456-8. free. (See p. 484.)
  3. Halsted, G. B.. The Lobachevsky Prize. Science. 16 September 1904. 20. 507. 353–367. 10.1126/science.20.507.353. 17734039. 1904Sci....20..353H . (report on Barbarin's work, pp. 363–367)
  4. Book: Lobachevsky, Nikolai I.. Pangeometry. 2010. European Mathematical Society. 978-3-03719-087-6. 288.
    translated and edited by Athanase Papadopoulos
    .
  5. Halsted, G. B.. Review of La Géométrie non-euclidienne par P. Barbarin. The American Mathematical Monthly. 1902. 9. 6/7. 153–159. 10.2307/2968815. 2968815.
  6. Buhl, A.. critique de livre: Géométrie non euclidienne par P. Barbarin. série 1, tome 4. L'Enseignement mathématique. 1902. 223–226.
  7. Allen, Edward Switzer. Three books on non-euclidean geometry. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.. 35. 1929. 271–276. 10.1090/S0002-9904-1929-04726-8. free. (See pp. 275–276.)