List of École Polytechnique faculty

This list of École Polytechnique faculty includes current and former professors of École Polytechnique, a French scientific higher education institution established during the French Revolution in 1794 in Paris and moved to Palaiseau in 1976. In 2007, École Polytechnique became a founding member of the ParisTech group of leading Paris-area engineering schools.

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Faculty
Name Department Notability Reference
André-Marie Ampère (1775-1836) Analysis (1807-1808)
Mecanics (1809-1827)[1]		 Co-discoverer of electromagnetism [2]
François Arago (1786–1853) (X1803) Geometry (1810-1815)
Analysis (1816-1829)[1]		 Mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician [3]
Augustin Louis Cauchy (1789–1857) (X1805) Analysis (1815-1829)[1] Early pioneer of analysis [4]
Alain Finkielkraut (born 1949) Humanities and Social sciences
Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy (1755–1809) Chemistry Co-discovered iridium, co-founded modern chemical nomenclature
Joseph Fourier (1768–1830) Analysis Fourier series, Fourier transform, Fourier's law of conduction [5]
Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette (1769–1834) Descriptive Geometry Mathematician [6]
Charles Hermite (1822–1901) Mathematics (1869-) Hermite polynomials, Hermite interpolation, Hermite normal form, Hermitian operators, and cubic Hermite splines are named in his honor [7]
Claude-Louis Mathieu (1783 - 1875) (X1803) Analysis (1833-1838)[1] Mathematician and astronomer who worked on the distance of the stars [8]
Gaspard Monge (1746 - 1818) Descriptive Geometry French mathematician and inventor of descriptive geometry [9]
Claude-Louis Navier (1785 - 1836) (X1802) Analysis (1831-1832)[1] Major contributor to modern structural analysis [10]
Paul Painlevé (1863 - 1933) Mathematics Painlevé transcendents [11]
Louis Poinsot (1777 - 1859) (X1794) Analysis (1809-1811)[1] Inventor of geometrical mechanics [12]
Felix Savary (1797 - 1841) (X1815) Analysis (1830-1841)[1] Astronomer who worked on double stars [13]
Laurent Schwartz (1915 - 2002) Mathematics (1959-1980) Pioneer of the theory of distributions [14]

References
  1. Callot, Jean Pierre; Journau, Philippe (1982). Histoire de l'École polytechnique (in French). C. Lavauzelle. pp. 475–478. ISBN 978-2-7025-0012-5. OCLC 21339164.
  2. "André Marie Ampère". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
  3. "François Arago". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
  4. "Augustin Louis Cauchy". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
  5. "Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
  6. "Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
  7. "Charles Hermite". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
  8. "Claude Louis Mathieu". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
  9. "Gaspard Monge". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
  10. "Claude Louis Marie Henri Navier". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
  11. "Paul Painlevé". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
  12. "Louis Poinsot". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
  13. "Felix Savary". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
  14. "Laurent Moise Schwartz". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
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