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Henri Poincaré

French mathematician, physicist and engineer1854 to 1912

Wikidata names Charles Hermite as doctoral advisor and lists 12 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Charles Hermite

Students on Wikidata12

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Vilhelm Bjerknes
born 1862
stated by Wikidata
Pierre Cousin
born 1867
stated by Wikidata
Mihailo Petrović
born 1868
stated by Wikidata
Henri Dulac
born 1870
stated by Wikidata
Louis Bachelier
born 1870
stated by Wikidata
Théophile de Donder
born 1872
stated by Wikidata
Dimitrie Pompeiu
born 1873
stated by Wikidata
Hugo von Zeipel
born 1873
stated by Wikidata
Jean Bosler
born 1878
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Kiril Popov
born 1880
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Kiril Popov
stated by Wikidata
Mihailo Petrović

Taught1

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a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Tobias Dantzig
born 1884

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

1 step up
stated by WikidataCharles Hermite
2 steps up
stated by WikidataEugène Charles Catalan
3 steps up
stated by WikidataJoseph Liouville
4 steps up
stated by WikidataLouis Jacques Thénardstated by WikidataSiméon Denis Poisson

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 164 people: 164 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career8

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1862 to 1873
lycée Henri-Poincaré
studied
1873 to 1875
École polytechnique
studied
from 1875
Mines ParisTech
studied
1877 to 1879
Corps des mines
worked
until 1879
University of Paris
studied
1879 to 1881
University of Caen Normandy
worked
1881 to 1912
University of Paris
worked
1886 to 1912
École polytechnique
worked

At a glance

known as: mathematician, philosopher, astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher of science, topologist, university teacher, writer, polymath
fields: algebraic geometry, mathematical analysis, geometry, topology, mathematics, mechanics, philosophy, mathematical physics, principle of relativity, algebraic topology, analytic function, theoretical physics, astronomy, celestial mechanics
awards: Poncelet Prize, 1885, Sylvester Medal, 1901, Commander of the Legion of Honour, 1903, Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1900, Bruce Medal, 1911, Bolyai Prize, 1905, Matteucci Medal, 1905, Royal Order of the Polar Star, 1905, Concours général, 1873, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, 1894, Jean Reynaud Prize, 1896
member of: Académie Française, 1908 to 1912, French Academy of Sciences, from 1908, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Royal Society of London, from 1894, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Académie de Stanislas (Nancy, France), Académie lorraine des sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, from 1899, Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL, Royal Society of Edinburgh, from 1895, National Academy of Sciences, from 1898, Academy of Sciences of Turin, from 1892, Romanian Academy, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, from 1888
notable works: Poincaré conjecture, Poincaré group, Poincaré recurrence theorem, Poincaré disk model, Poincaré duality, Poincaré inequality, Poincaré map, Poincaré–Bendixson theorem, Poincaré–Hopf theorem, Poincaré half-plane model, Poincaré lemma, Poincaré metric, Poincaré–Birkhoff–Witt theorem, Poincaré–Birkhoff theorem, Poincaré–Lelong equation, Poincaré–Lindstedt method, Poincaré plot, Poincaré residue, Poincaré series, Poincaré separation theorem, Poincaré–Miranda theorem, Poincaré space, Poincaré–Steklov operator, Poincaré sphere, La Science et l'Hypothèse / Henri Poincaré, Science et Méthode / Henri Poincaré, La Valeur de la Science / Henri Poincaré
Wikipedia: in 131 languages

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Elsewhere8

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stated by WikidataWikipediaHenri Poincaré
stated by WikidataWikidataQ81082
stated by WikidataVIAF51694558
stated by WikidataGND118595407
stated by WikidataIdRef027943585
stated by WikidataISNI0000000121326577

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stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project34227

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@misc{academicancestry_Q81082,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Henri Poincaré: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q81082},
  note = {read on 2026-10-22}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 22). Henri Poincaré: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-22]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q81082