Koenigs

Gabriel Koenigs

Born: 17 Jan 1858 in Toulouse, France
Died: 29 Oct 1931 in Paris, France

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Koenigs was appointed lecturer in mechanics at Bresancon, then in analysis at Toulouse. He returned to École Normale Supérieure in Paris in 1886 where he had obtained a doctorate 4 years earlier. He became professor of mechanics at the Sorbonne in 1897.

Koenigs was greatly influenced by Darboux and his first work was on geometry following work of Plücker and Klein. Then he looked at iteration theory and analytic mechanics where he applied Poincaré's theory.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. A Buhl, Enseignment mathématique 30 (1931), 286-287. 
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