Paul Jean Joseph Barbarin


Paul Jean Joseph Barbarin was a French mathematician, specializing in geometry.

Education and career

Barbarin studied mathematics for a brief time at the École Polytechnique, but changed, at the age of 19, to the École Normale Supérieure, where he studied mathematics under Briot, Bouquet, Tannery, and Darboux. After graduation, Barbarin became a professor of mathematics at the Lyceum of Nice and then at the School of St.-Cyr of the Lyceum of Toulon. In 1891 he became a professor at the Lyceum of Bordeaux, where he taught for many years. At the time of his death he was a professor at the École Spéciale des Travaux Publics in Paris.
In 1903 the Kazan Physical and Mathematical Society of Kazan State University awarded the Lobachevsky Prize to Hilbert but the Society cited Barbarin as the second choice among the nominees considered. When Hilbert received the Society's award, Henri Poincaré contributed a report on the work of Hilbert, and Professor Mansion of Ghent contributed a report on the work of Barbarin. In a 1904 article published in the journal Science, G. B. Halsted gave an English summary of the two French reports.
Athanase Papadopoulos edited and translated Lobachevsky's Pangéométrie ou Précis de géométrie fondée sur une théorie générale et rigoureuse des parallèles and provided a footnote concerning Barbarin:
Barbarin was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1928 in Bologna.

Selected publications

Articles

  • Nouvelles annales de mathématiques: journal des candidats aux écoles polytechnique et normale 19 : 212–215.
  • Nouvelles annales de mathématiques: journal des candidats aux écoles polytechnique et normale 1 : 15–28.
  • Sur le droite de Simson. Mathesis 2, 106–108,, 122–129.
  • Nouvelles annales de mathématiques: journal des candidats aux écoles polytechnique et normale 4 : 538–556.
  • Association française pour l'avancement des sciences 2 89–105.
  • Mathesis 16 143–150.
  • Revue de mathématiques spéciales 4 353–354.
  • Constructions sphériques a la règle et au compas. Mathesis 19, 57–60,, 81–85.
  • The American Mathematical Monthly 8, no. 8/9 161–163.
  • Mathesis 21 177–191.
  • Mathesis 22 187–193.
  • Mémoires de la Société des sciences physiques et naturelles de Bordeaux, série 6, tome 2 25–44.
  • Le matematiche pure ed applicate 2 137–145.
  • Mémoires de la Société des sciences physiques et naturelles de Bordeaux, série 6, tome 2 163–188.

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