Pierre Boutroux

Pierre Boutroux (December 6, 1880 in Paris, † August 15 1922 in France) was a French mathematician and historian of science.

He was the son of the philosopher Émile Boutroux and his wife Aline Catherine Eugénie Boutroux, born Poincaré, the sister of the mathematician Henri Poincaré. A cousin was the later French President (1913-1920) Raymond Poincaré.

Boutroux was mainly known for his work on the history and philosophy of mathematics. At Princeton University, he became professor of mathematics from 1913 to 1914 and at the Collège de France, a professor of science story of 1920 to 1922.

Boutroux are with his magnum opus Les principes de l' analysis mathématique in two volumes (1914 and 1919 ) provided a comprehensive overview of the entire field of mathematics throughout history.

Publications

• L' imagination et les Mathématiques selon Descartes ( 1900)
• Sur quelques propriétés des fonctions entières (1903 )
• Oeuvres de Blaise Pascal, publiées suivant l' ordre chronologique, avec Resident documents, introductions et notes par Léon Pierre et Brunschvicg Boutroux (1908 )
• Leçons sur les fonctions définies par les équations du premier ordre differential, professées au Collège de France ( 1908) online text
• Les principes de l' analysis mathématique, exposé historique et critique ( 1914, Volume 1, Volume 2 1919) online text 1 2
• L' Idéal Scientifique of Mathématiciens dans l' Antiquité et dans les Temps Modernes (1920 ) online text. German edition with explanatory notes by H. Pollaczek - Geiringer: The scientific ideal of mathematicians, BG Teubner, Leipzig and Berlin, 1927.
• Les Mathématiques (1922 )