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Camille Jordan

French mathematician1838 to 1922

Wikidata names Joseph Alfred Serret and Victor Puiseux as doctoral advisors and lists 1 doctoral student. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

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Joseph Alfred Serret
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Victor Puiseux

Students on Wikidata1

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Marie Georges Humbert
born 1859

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stated by WikidataJoseph Alfred Serretstated by WikidataVictor Puiseux

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 9 people: 9 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

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Sur le nombre des valeurs des fonctions. Sur les périodes des fonctions inverses des intégrales des différentielles algébriques
doctoral thesis, stated by Wikidata

Education and career6

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1855 to 1858
École polytechnique
studied
until 1861
Science Faculty of Paris
studied
until 1861
Mines ParisTech
studied
1861 to 1885
Corps of bridges, waters and forests
worked
1873 to 1912
École polytechnique
worked
1883 to 1912
Collège de France
worked

At a glance

known as: mathematician, engineer, professor, from 1876, university teacher
fields: group theory, mathematics, linear algebra, measure theory
awards: Poncelet Prize, 1870, Officer of the Legion of Honour, 1890, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, 1919
member of: Royal Society of London, from 1919, Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, French Academy of Sciences, from 1881, Russian Academy of Sciences, Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL, London Mathematical Society, 1907, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, 1869, National Academy of Sciences, from 1920, Academy of Sciences of Turin, from 1896, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, from 1895
notable works: Jordan's theorem, Jordan curve theorem, Jordan–Hölder theorem, Jordan–Schur theorem, Schoenflies problem, Jordan decomposition theorem, Jordan–Chevalley decomposition, Jordan's lemma, Jordan normal form, Jordan matrix, Jordan measure, Jordan's totient function, Jordan's inequality, Jordan–Pólya number
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stated by WikidataWikipediaCamille Jordan
stated by WikidataWikidataQ310755
stated by WikidataVIAF22172475
stated by WikidataGND117177075
stated by WikidataIdRef029467543
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@misc{academicancestry_Q310755,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Camille Jordan: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q310755},
  note = {read on 2026-10-22}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 22). Camille Jordan: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-22]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q310755