Joseph liouville biography

Paris, France, 8 September ,. Liouville is most famous for having founded and directed for almost forty years one of the major mathematical journals of the nineteenth century, the Journal de Liouville. He also made important contributions in pure and applied mathematics and exerted a fruitful influence on French mathematics through his teaching.

Joseph liouville biography: Joseph Liouville FRS FRSE FAS

The few articles devoted to Liouville contain little biographical data. Thus the principal stages of his life and career must be reconstructed on the basis of original documentation. His work as a whole has been treated in only two original studies of limited scope, those of G. Chrystal and G. Liouville studied in Commerey and then in Tout.

In he married a maternal cousin, Marie-Louise Balland ; they had three daughters and one son. Liouville lived a calm and studious life, enlivened by an annual vacation at the family house in Toul. His scientific career was disturbed only by a brief venture into politics, during the Revolution of