Padé

Henri Eugène Padé

Born: 17 Dec 1863 in France
Died: 9 July 1953

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Padé was educated at the Lycée St Louis and École Normale Supérieure in Paris and then taught in secondary schools. In 1889 and 1890 he studied at Leipzig and Göttingen under Klein and Schwarz. He returned to France and obtained a doctorate under Hermite's supervision. He then taught at Lille, Poitiers and Bordeaux. In 1906 he received the Grand Prize of the French Academy and, two years later, he became Rector of Besancon. In 1917 he became Rector of the Academy of Dijon and from 1923 until he retired in 1934 he was Rector at Aix-Marseille.

He wrote 41 papers, 29 of which were on continued fractions and Padé approximates. He also wrote an elementary algebra book and translated Klein's Erlangen programme into French. His thesis and related papers on Padé approximates became well known after Borel included them in his 1901 book on divergent series.

References:

  1. H Padé, Oeuvres : rassembles et presentees par Claude Brezinski (Paris, 1984).
  2. C Brezinski, History of continued fractions and Pade approximants (Berlin, 1991).
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