Liouville, Joseph (1809-1882) -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography

Branch of Science

Mathematicians

Nationality

French

Liouville, Joseph (1809-1882)

French mathematician who, with Sturm developed many properties of boundary value problems. He also studied analysis $Eric Weisstein's World of Math$ and differential equations, $Eric Weisstein's World of Math$ as well as demonstrating the existence of transcendental numbers, $Eric Weisstein's World of Math$ proving that the sum

is transcendental $Eric Weisstein's World of Math$ when n is a real number $Eric Weisstein's World of Math$ greater than 1. With n=10, this is known as Liouville's constant. $Eric Weisstein's World of Math$ Liouville founded Journal de mathématiques pures et appliquées in 1836.

Sturm

Additional biographies: MacTutor (St. Andrews), Bonn

Altshiller-Court, N. Modern Pure Solid Geometry. New York: Chelsea, p. 297, 1979.

Lützen, J. Joseph Liouville 1809-1882: Master of Pure and Applied Mathematics. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1990.