Victor Jamet Explained

Émile Victor Jamet (19 December 1853, Mèze, Hérault – 4 August 1919, Nice) was a French mathematician.[1]

Education and career

After study at ENS, Jamet became on 19 September 1876 a lecturer in mathematics at the lycée de Saint-Brieuc. On 21 September 1877 he became a professor of mathematics at the lycée de Nice. On 24 October 1878 he became a lecturer, with the title of substitute teacher, having the duties of a professor of mathematics at the lycée de Toulouse. On 6 September 1879 he became a professor of mathematics at the lycée de Pau. On 10 September 1881 he became a professor of mathematics at the lycée de Nantes. On 30 August 1889 he became a professor of mathematics at the lycée de Marseille and taught preparatory classes for the École centrale de Marseille. On 1 January 1915 he became a professor of mathématiques spéciales at the lycée de Nice and retired there in 1918.

On 20 February 1908, he was elected a member of l’Académie des sciences, lettres et beaux-arts de Marseille in the section of physical sciences, as successor to the physicist Jules Macé de Lépinay (born 1851, died 1904, graduated ENS 1872).

Jamet passed his agrégation in mathematics in 1877. He received his doctorate in mathematical sciences on 28 October 1887 from the University of Paris with thesis Sur les courbes et les surfaces tétraèdralex with thesis committee consisting of Darboux (chair), Picard, and Poincaré.[1]

Jamet was an Invited Speaker at the ICM in 1900 in Paris.[2]

Selected publications

Notes and References

  1. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B71JfRYrV2lYN0N1M004N1VkcVk/view?usp=sharing ed. Roland Brasseur – Dictionnaire des professeurs de mathématiques en classe de mathématiques spéciales – 2017 JAMET Victor 1853-1919
  2. Sur le théorème de M. Salmon, concernant les cubiques planes par M. V. Jamet. Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1900 at Paris.