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.

Faculty

Name Department Notability Reference
André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836) Analysis (1807–1808)
Mechanics (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]
Joseph Bertrand (1822–1900) Analysis, Mathematics (1844–1895) Bertrand paradox (probability), Bertrand paradox (economics) [4]
Augustin Louis Cauchy (1789–1857) (X1805) Analysis (1815–1829)[1] Early pioneer of analysis [5]
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 [6]
Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette (1769–1834) Descriptive Geometry Mathematician [7]
Charles Hermite (1822–1901) Mathematics (1869–) Hermite polynomials, Hermite interpolation, Hermite normal form, Hermitian operators, and cubic Hermite splines are named in his honor [8]
Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736–1813) first professor of analysis at the École Polytechnique upon its opening in 1794



Claude-Louis Mathieu (1783–1875) (X1803) Analysis (1833–1838)[1] Mathematician and astronomer who worked on the distance of the stars [9]
Gaspard Monge (1746–1818) Descriptive Geometry French mathematician and inventor of descriptive geometry [10]
Claude-Louis Navier (1785–1836) (X1802) Analysis (1831–1832)[1] Major contributor to modern structural analysis [11]
Paul Painlevé (1863–1933) Mathematics Painlevé transcendents [12]
Louis Poinsot (1777–1859) (X1794) Analysis (1809–1811)[1] Inventor of geometrical mechanics [13]
Felix Savary (1797–1841) (X1815) Analysis (1830–1841)[1] Astronomer who worked on double stars [14]
Laurent Schwartz (1915–2002) Mathematics (1959–1980) Pioneer of the theory of distributions [15]
Giovanni De Micheli Institute of Electrical Engineering Pioneer of the Network on a chip [16]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 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. ↑ "Joseph Louis François Bertrand". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
  5. ↑ "Augustin Louis Cauchy". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
  6. ↑ "Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
  7. ↑ "Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
  8. ↑ "Charles Hermite". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
  9. ↑ "Claude Louis Mathieu". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
  10. ↑ "Gaspard Monge". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
  11. ↑ "Claude Louis Marie Henri Navier". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
  12. ↑ "Paul Painlevé". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
  13. ↑ "Louis Poinsot". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
  14. ↑ "Felix Savary". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
  15. ↑ "Laurent Moise Schwartz". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
  16. ↑ "Giovanni De Micheli". Giovanni De Micheli at EPFL.
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