{{Short description|Belgian mathematician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}} {{infobox scientist | name = Paul Mansion | box_size = | image = Paul Mansion. Photograph by Simon de Trex, 1916. Wellcome V0026810.jpg | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1844|06|03|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Marchin]], near [[Huy]], [[Belgium]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1919|04|16|1844|06|03|df=yes}} | death_place = [[Ghent]], [[Belgium]] | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | residence = | citizenship = | nationality = | spouse = Marie-Cécile Belpaire | parents = Fernande Devreux | field = [[Mathematics]] | work_institutions = [[University of Ghent]] | alma_mater = [[University of Ghent]] | thesis_title = Théorie de la multiplication et de la transformation des fonctions elliptiques | thesis_url = https://books.google.com/books?id=UKxEAAAAcAAJ | thesis_year = 1867 | doctoral_advisor = Félix Dauge<br>Mathias Schaar | notable_students = [[George Sarton]] | doctoral_students = | known_for = | influences = | influenced = | prizes = | religion = | signature = Paul Mansion (signature).png | foot_notes = }}
'''Paul Mansion''' (3 June 1844 – 16 April 1919) was a Belgian [[mathematician]], editor of the journal ''[[Mathesis (journal)|Mathesis]]''.
== Life and work == Mansion was the ninth of ten brothers. His father died when he was only a baby and he was brought up by his mother and his older brothers. He studied at [[Huy]] school and high school.{{sfn | Demoulin | 1929 | p=78 }} In 1862 he entered in the ''École Normale des Sciences'', attached to the [[University of Ghent]], where he graduated in 1865. From this time till 1867 he taught mathematics in the artillery academy in [[Ghent]], while he was working in his doctoral thesis. He was awarded PhD in 1867.{{sfn | Demoulin | 1929 | p=80 }}
In 1867, after the death of his professor Mathias Schaar, he was appointed to the chair of calculus at the university of Ghent.{{sfn | Demoulin | 1929 | p=82 }} He remained there until he was appointed to the chair of probability in 1892.{{sfn | Demoulin | 1929 | p=91 }} Also, from 1884, he taught the history of mathematics.
In 1874, with [[Eugene Catalan]], he founded the journal ''Nouvelle Correspondence Mathématique'', and in 1880, with [[Joseph Neuberg]], he founded the journal ''[[Mathesis (journal)|Mathesis]]''.{{sfn | Demoulin | 1929 | pp=106–107 }}
The works of Mansion, deal mainly with [[non-Euclidean geometry]],{{sfn | Walter | 1999 | p=105 }} [[history of mathematics]],{{sfn | Pyenson | 1989 | p=360 }} and [[differential equation]]s. He published 349 works in very different journals.{{sfn | Demoulin | 1929 | pp=117–147 }}
== References == {{reflist|2}}
== Bibliography == * {{cite journal | last = Demoulin | first = A. | title = La vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Mansion | url = http://www.academieroyale.be/academie/documents/MansionPaulARB_192948144.pdf | language = fr | journal = Annuaire | volume = | issue = | year = 1929 | pages = 77–147 | issn = | doi= }} * {{cite book | last = Walter | first = Scott | chapter = The non-euclidean style of Minkowskian relativity | editor = Jeremy Gray | title = The Symbolic Universe: Geometry and Physics 1890-1930 | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=VbSATwMDFg8C | year = 1999 | publisher = Oxford University Press | language = | pages = 91–127 | isbn = 978-0-19-850088-9 }} * {{cite journal | last = Pyenson | first = Lewis | title = What is the Good of History of Science? | language = | journal = History of Science | volume = 27 | issue = 4 | year = 1989 | pages = 353–389 | issn = 0073-2753 | doi= 10.1177/007327538902700402 | pmid = 11622212 | s2cid = 39613189 }}
== External links == * {{MacTutor|id=Mansion}} * {{cite web|last1=Pelseneer|first1=J.|year=2008|title=Mansion, Paul|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830902801.html|website=Dictionary of Scientific Biography|access-date=12 November 2017}} * {{cite web|last1=|first1=|year=2017|title=Mansion, Paul (1844-1919)|url=https://www.bestor.be/wiki/index.php/Mansion,_Paul_(1844-1919)|website=Bestor|access-date=15 November 2017}} * {{cite arXiv|last1=Le Ferrand|first1=Hervé|year=2019|title=Paul Mansion (1844-1919) : plus de 400 publications mathématiques selon le Jahrbuch |eprint=1903.06761|class=math.HO}}.
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