Jean Gaston Darboux

Jean Gaston Darboux (August 14, 1842, Nîmes – February 23, 1917, Paris) was a French mathematician. He made several important contributions to geometry and mathematical analysis (see Linear PDEs for example). He was a biographer of Henri Poincaré.

There are many things named after him:

• Darboux integral
• Darboux function
• Darboux's theorem (see Intermediate value theorem for now)
• Christoffel-Darboux identity [1]
• Christoffel-Darboux formula [2]
• Darboux's formula [3]
• Darboux vector [4]
• Euler-Darboux equation [5]
• Euler-Poisson-Darboux equation [6]
• Darboux cubic [7]
• Darboux [8] or Goursat problem [9]

External links

• A biography in Weisstein's World of Biography
• A biography at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland