BOULIGAND

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13.10.1889 Lorient/F - 12.4.1979 Paris/F

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Georges Bouligand left as a mathematician from Ecole Normale Supérieure in 1912 and in 1914 was appointed professor of mathematics at the Lycée of Tours. He moved to Faculté des Sciences in Poitiers in 1921 as professor of rational mechanics and in 1931 as professor of differential calculus. In 1938, he returned to Paris as a Lecturer of mathematics at Faculté des Sciences, where he was appointed ten years later professor until retirement in 1961. He was awarded in 1956 the honorary doctorate from Université Catholique of Louvain, Belgium, and from Académie des Sciences both Prix Jeanbernat-Doria and Prix Binoux, in 1948.

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Bouligand is known for several outstanding works in hydrodynamics, besides main contributions in rational mechanics and applied mathematics. In 1912, he presented a booklet on the equations describing small movements on a liquid surface. Another paper published in 1930 relates to general researches in hydrodynamics. Still other works include a mathematical singularity at the wave reflection by a wall, irrotational outflow from a tank by accounting for the vortex structure, impulse waves and the entrainment of a viscous liquid in an annular tank.

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_{Anonymous (1939). Bouligand, Georges-Louis. Annales des l'Université de Paris 14(1): 309- 310.}

_{Anonymous (1979). Georges Bouligand. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Paris, Vie Académique 288: 130.}

_{Bouligand, G. (1912). Sur les équations de petits mouvements de surface d'un fluide parfait.}

_{Gauthier-Villars: Paris.}

_{Bouligand, G. (1927). Sur la continuité et les approximations en dynamique des liquides. Journal de l'Ecole Polytechnique Série 2 26: 1-38.}

_{Bouligand, G. (1930). Sur divers problèmes de la dynamique des liquides. Gauthier-Villars: Paris.}

_{Bouligand, G. (1937). Précis de mécanique rationnelle à l'usage des élèves des facultés des sciences. Vuibert: Paris.}

_{Bouligand, Y. (2004). Georges Bouligand. Personal communication. P}

_{Poggendorff, J.C. (1936). Bouligand, Georges. Biographisch-Literarisches Handwörterbuch}

_{6: 294-295; 7b: 494-499. Verlag Chemie: Leipzig, with bibliography.}