Henri Padé

Henri Padé
Born	December 17, 1863 Abbeville
Died	July 9, 1953 (aged 89) Aix-en-Provence
Nationality	French
Fields	Mathematics
Alma mater	École Normale Supérieure
Doctoral advisor	Charles Hermite
Known for	Padé approximant Padé table

Henri Eugène Padé (French: [pade]; December 17, 1863 – July 9, 1953) was a French mathematician, who is now remembered mainly for his development of Padé approximation techniques for functions using rational functions.

He was educated at École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He then spent a year at Leipzig and Göttingen.

Back in France in 1890, he taught in Lille, while preparing his doctorate under Charles Hermite. His doctoral thesis described what is now known as the Padé approximant. He proceeded as assistant professor in Université Lille Nord de France, where he succeeded Émile Borel as a professor of rational mechanics at École centrale de Lille until 1902.

He then moved to Université de Poitiers in 1902; he became recteur of Académie de Besançon and Dijon in 1923. He retired as Recteur of Académie de Aix-Marseilles in 1934.

External links

• Media related to Henri Padé at Wikimedia Commons
• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Henri Padé", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
• Henri Padé at the Mathematics Genealogy Project