Jean-Claude Bouquet

Jean-Claude Bouquet (7 September 1819 – 9 September 1885 ) was a French mathematician who worked with Charles Briot on doubly periodic functions.

Bouquet became friends with Briot at the Lycée and wanted to become a mathematics teacher.

Biography The son of a farmer, Jean Claude Bouquet studied at the secondary school level in Lyon, where he obtained Bachelor of Arts and Science degrees. From 1839 to 1842, he studied science at the Ecole Normale and the University of Paris, where he obtained a degree in mathematics and physics in 1841. France was in the midst of the revolution of 1830.

Appointed an associate for the mathematics classes at colleges on September 16. 1842, he was immediately appointed to replace the elementary maths teacher at the Royal College of Marseille. In 1843, he obtained a PhD in Mathematical Sciences with a master thesis on variation of double integrals. In October 1845, at the age of 26, he became professor of pure mathematics at the Faculty of Sciences of Lyon.

Parallel to his teaching high school and the Ecole Normale Supérieure, he assumed the faculty of science during the second half of 1865. He was elected member of the Academy of Sciences in 1875. He was appointed Knight of the Legion of Honor on 13 August 1858 and Officer on 31 December 1884.