Human Accomplishment: Camille Jordan

a French mathematician, known both for his foundational work in group theory and for his influential Cours d'analyse.

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(Camille Jordan)

Born

5 January 1838 Lyon

Died

22 January 1922 (aged 84) Paris

Nationality

French

Known for

Jordan curve theorem Jordan decomposition Jordan normal form Jordan matrix Jordan measure Jordan totient function Jordan's inequality Jordan's lemma Jordan's theorem (symmetric group) Jordan–Chevalley

Fields

Mathematics

Alma mater

École polytechnique

Academic advisors

Victor Puiseux and Joseph Alfred Serret

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France

era

1800+

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