Marius Lacombe (7 February 1862 – 19 March 1938) was a Swiss mathematician.

Marius Lacombe
Born(1862-02-07)7 February 1862
Died19 March 1938(1938-03-19) (aged 76)
Alma materETH Zurich
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsETH Zurich
University of Lausanne

Life and work

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Lacombe studied mathematics at Engineers Department of the ETH Zurich.[1] From 1890 to 1894 he was teaching descriptive geometry in the university of Lausanne.[2] In 1894 he was appointed professor at ETH Zurich[3] to fill a newly created chair of descriptive geometry in French language.[4] After fourteen years in Zurich, in 1908 he returned to university of Lausane, where he retired in 1927.[5]

He was more a teacher than a researcher. His only known works deal on pedagogy of mathematics.[6][5] In 1896 he was one of the organizers of the first International Congress of Mathematicians.

References

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  1. ^ Eminger 2015, p. 123.
  2. ^ Khouyibaba 1997, p. 42.
  3. ^ Frei & Stammbach 1994, p. 46.
  4. ^ Oswald & Volkert 2018, p. 29.
  5. ^ a b Khouyibaba 1997, p. 43.
  6. ^ Eminger 2015, p. 124-125.

Bibliography

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  • Eminger, Stefanie Ursula (2015). Carl Friedrich Geiser and Ferdinand Rudio: The Men Behind the First International Congress of Mathematicians (PDF). St Andrews University.
  • Frei, Günther; Stammbach, Urs (1994). Die Mathematiker an den Zürcher Hochschulen (in German). Springer. ISBN 978-3-7643-5078-9.
  • Khouyibaba, Saadia (1997). Mathématiques et Mathématiciens dans les universités de la Suisse Romande de 1537 a 1937 (PDF) (in French). Université Laval. ISBN 0-612-25426-7.
  • Oswald, Nicola; Volkert, Klaus (2018). "A Glimpse of Sources for Historical Studies at the ETH Archive in Zürich". EMS Newsletter. 49 (109): 28–33. doi:10.4171/NEWS/109/7. ISSN 1726-7528.
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