Person: Lacombe, Marius
Marius Lacombe was a Swiss schoolteacher who helped organise the first International Congress of Mathematicians.
Mathematical Profile (Excerpt):
- Lacombe studied mathematics at the Polytechnic's Engineering Department and became a professor at the University of Lausanne in 1892.
- In 1894 he was appointed to a professorship at the Polytechnic in Zürich: Lacombe filled the newly created chair of descriptive geometry in French.
- Lacombe stayed in Zürich for 14 years.
- Lacombe stayed in Lausanne for the rest of his life.
- Lacombe was more teacher than research mathematician.
- Lacombe also received an honorary doctorate from the University of Lausanne.
- Lacombe joined the enlarged organising committee of the first International Congress of Mathematicians in December 1896.
Born 7 February 1862, Lausanne, Switzerland. Died 19 March 1938, Chexbres, Vaud canton, Switzerland.
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