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class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Maxime Bôcher</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Maxime_B%C3%B4cher.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f6/Maxime_B%C3%B4cher.jpg/220px-Maxime_B%C3%B4cher.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="297" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f6/Maxime_B%C3%B4cher.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="240" data-file-height="324" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1867-08-28</span>)</span>August 28, 1867<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a>, <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">September 12, 1918<span style="display:none">(1918-09-12)</span> (aged 51)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Cambridge,_Massachusetts" title="Cambridge, Massachusetts">Cambridge, Massachusetts</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">American</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a><br /><a href="/wiki/University_of_G%C3%B6ttingen" title="University of Göttingen">University of Göttingen</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Differential_equation" title="Differential equation">Differential equations</a>, <a href="/wiki/Series_(mathematics)" title="Series (mathematics)">series</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Algebra" title="Algebra">algebra</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><b>Scientific career</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Fields</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Mathematics" title="Mathematics">Mathematics</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Institutions</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Doctoral_advisor" title="Doctoral advisor">Doctoral advisor</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Felix_Klein" title="Felix Klein">Felix Klein</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Doctoral students</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/William_Charles_Brenke" title="William Charles Brenke">William Brenke</a><br /><a href="/wiki/David_Raymond_Curtiss" title="David Raymond Curtiss">David R. Curtiss</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Griffith_C._Evans" title="Griffith C. Evans">Griffith C. Evans</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Lester_R._Ford" title="Lester R. Ford">Lester R. Ford</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Walter_Burton_Ford" title="Walter Burton Ford">Walter B. Ford</a><br /><a href="/wiki/James_Waterman_Glover" title="James Waterman Glover">James W. Glover</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Charles_Napoleon_Moore" title="Charles Napoleon Moore">Charles N. Moore</a><br /><a href="/wiki/William_Henry_Roever" title="William Henry Roever">William H. Roever</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Leonard_Walsh" class="mw-redirect" title="Joseph Leonard Walsh">Joseph L. Walsh</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Maxime Bôcher</b> (August 28, 1867 – September 12, 1918) was an American <a href="/wiki/Mathematician" title="Mathematician">mathematician</a> who published about 100 papers on <a href="/wiki/Differential_equation" title="Differential equation">differential equations</a>, <a href="/wiki/Series_(mathematics)" title="Series (mathematics)">series</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Algebra" title="Algebra">algebra</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also wrote elementary texts such as <i>Trigonometry</i> and <i>Analytic Geometry</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/B%C3%B4cher%27s_theorem" title="Bôcher's theorem">Bôcher's theorem</a>, <a href="#Bôcher's_equation">Bôcher's equation</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/B%C3%B4cher_Memorial_Prize" title="Bôcher Memorial Prize">Bôcher Memorial Prize</a> are named after him. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life">Life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maxime_B%C3%B4cher&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bôcher was born in <a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a>, <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a>. His parents were Caroline Little and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ferdinand_B%C3%B4cher&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ferdinand Bôcher (page does not exist)">Ferdinand Bôcher</a>. Maxime's father was professor of modern languages at the <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology" title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a> when Maxime was born, and became Professor of <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a> at <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a> in 1872. </p><p>Bôcher received an excellent education from his parents and from a number of public and private schools in Massachusetts. He graduated from the <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_Rindge_and_Latin_School" title="Cambridge Rindge and Latin School">Cambridge Latin School</a> in 1883. He received his first degree from Harvard in 1888. At Harvard, he studied a wide range of topics, including <a href="/wiki/Mathematics" title="Mathematics">mathematics</a>, <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chemistry" title="Chemistry">chemistry</a>, philosophy, zoology, <a href="/wiki/Geography" title="Geography">geography</a>, <a href="/wiki/Geology" title="Geology">geology</a>, meteorology, Roman art, and <a href="/wiki/Music" title="Music">music</a>. </p><p>Bôcher was awarded many prestigious prizes, which allowed him to travel to Europe to do research. The <a href="/wiki/University_of_G%C3%B6ttingen" title="University of Göttingen">University of Göttingen</a> was then the leading mathematics university, and he attended there lectures by <a href="/wiki/Felix_Klein" title="Felix Klein">Felix Klein</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Moritz_Schoenflies" title="Arthur Moritz Schoenflies">Arthur Moritz Schoenflies</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hermann_Schwarz" title="Hermann Schwarz">Hermann Schwarz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Issai_Schur" title="Issai Schur">Issai Schur</a> and <a href="/wiki/Woldemar_Voigt" title="Woldemar Voigt">Woldemar Voigt</a>. He was awarded a doctorate in 1891 for his dissertation <i>Über die Reihenentwicklungen der Potentialtheorie</i> (<a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a> for "On the Development of the Potential Function into Series"); he was encouraged to study this topic by Klein. He received a Göttingen university prize for this work. </p><p>Bocher was elected to the <a href="/wiki/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences" title="American Academy of Arts and Sciences">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a> in 1899,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the United States <a href="/wiki/National_Academy_of_Sciences" title="National Academy of Sciences">National Academy of Sciences</a> in 1909,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/American_Philosophical_Society" title="American Philosophical Society">American Philosophical Society</a> in 1916.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In Göttingen he met Marie Niemann, and they were married in July 1891. They had three children, Helen, Esther, and Frederick. He returned with his wife to Harvard where he was appointed as an instructor. In 1894 he was promoted to assistant professor, due to his impressive record. He became a full professor of mathematics in 1904. He was president of the <a href="/wiki/American_Mathematical_Society" title="American Mathematical Society">American Mathematical Society</a> from 1908 to 1910.<sup id="cite_ref-amer_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-amer-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although he was only 46 years old, there were already signs that his weak health was failing. He died at his <a href="/wiki/Cambridge,_Massachusetts" title="Cambridge, Massachusetts">Cambridge</a> home after suffering a prolonged illness. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bôcher's_theorem"><span id="B.C3.B4cher.27s_theorem"></span>Bôcher's theorem</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maxime_B%C3%B4cher&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Bôcher's theorem"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/B%C3%B4cher%27s_theorem" title="Bôcher's theorem">Bôcher's theorem</a> states that the finite <a href="/wiki/Zero_of_a_function" title="Zero of a function">zeros</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Derivative" title="Derivative">derivative</a> <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle r'(z)}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <msup> <mi>r</mi> <mo>′</mo> </msup> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mi>z</mi> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle r'(z)}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/47e9a249fcdba62b148a20c8b01e80a70253da43" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:4.631ex; height:3.009ex;" alt="{\displaystyle r'(z)}"></span> of a non-<a href="/wiki/Constant_function" title="Constant function">constant</a> <a href="/wiki/Rational_function" title="Rational function">rational function</a> <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle r(z)}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>r</mi> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mi>z</mi> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle r(z)}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/de2fb3c54b8d10544b170baeae4ab46bad371a1c" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:3.946ex; height:2.843ex;" alt="{\displaystyle r(z)}"></span> that are not multiple zeros of <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle r(z)}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>r</mi> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mi>z</mi> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle r(z)}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/de2fb3c54b8d10544b170baeae4ab46bad371a1c" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:3.946ex; height:2.843ex;" alt="{\displaystyle r(z)}"></span> are the positions of equilibrium in the field of force due to particles of positive mass at the zeros of <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle r(z)}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>r</mi> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mi>z</mi> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle r(z)}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/de2fb3c54b8d10544b170baeae4ab46bad371a1c" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:3.946ex; height:2.843ex;" alt="{\displaystyle r(z)}"></span> and particles of <a href="/wiki/Negative_mass" title="Negative mass">negative mass</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Zeros_and_poles" title="Zeros and poles">poles</a> of <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle r(z)}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>r</mi> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mi>z</mi> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle r(z)}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/de2fb3c54b8d10544b170baeae4ab46bad371a1c" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:3.946ex; height:2.843ex;" alt="{\displaystyle r(z)}"></span>, with masses numerically equal to the respective multiplicities, where each particle repels with a force equal to the mass times the inverse distance. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bôcher's_equation"><span id="B.C3.B4cher.27s_equation"></span>Bôcher's equation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maxime_B%C3%B4cher&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Bôcher's equation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bôcher's equation is a second-order <a href="/wiki/Ordinary_differential_equation" title="Ordinary differential equation">ordinary differential equation</a> of the form: </p> <dl><dd><span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle y''+{\frac {1}{2}}\left[{\frac {m_{1}}{x-a_{1}}}+\cdots +{\frac {m_{n-1}}{x-a_{n-1}}}\right]y'+{\frac {1}{4}}\left[{\frac {A_{0}+A_{1}x+\cdots +A_{\ell }x^{\ell }}{(x-a_{1})_{1}^{m}(x-a_{2})_{2}^{m}\cdots (x-a_{n-1})_{n-1}^{m}}}\right]y=0.}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <msup> <mi>y</mi> <mo>″</mo> </msup> <mo>+</mo> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mfrac> <mn>1</mn> <mn>2</mn> </mfrac> </mrow> <mrow> <mo>[</mo> <mrow> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mfrac> <msub> <mi>m</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mn>1</mn> </mrow> </msub> <mrow> <mi>x</mi> <mo>−<!-- − --></mo> <msub> <mi>a</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mn>1</mn> </mrow> </msub> </mrow> </mfrac> </mrow> <mo>+</mo> <mo>⋯<!-- ⋯ --></mo> <mo>+</mo> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mfrac> <msub> <mi>m</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>n</mi> <mo>−<!-- − --></mo> <mn>1</mn> </mrow> </msub> <mrow> <mi>x</mi> <mo>−<!-- − --></mo> <msub> <mi>a</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>n</mi> <mo>−<!-- − --></mo> <mn>1</mn> </mrow> </msub> </mrow> </mfrac> </mrow> </mrow> <mo>]</mo> </mrow> <msup> <mi>y</mi> <mo>′</mo> </msup> <mo>+</mo> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mfrac> <mn>1</mn> <mn>4</mn> </mfrac> </mrow> <mrow> <mo>[</mo> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mfrac> <mrow> <msub> <mi>A</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mn>0</mn> </mrow> </msub> <mo>+</mo> <msub> <mi>A</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mn>1</mn> </mrow> </msub> <mi>x</mi> <mo>+</mo> <mo>⋯<!-- ⋯ --></mo> <mo>+</mo> <msub> <mi>A</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>ℓ<!-- ℓ --></mi> </mrow> </msub> <msup> <mi>x</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>ℓ<!-- ℓ --></mi> </mrow> </msup> </mrow> <mrow> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mi>x</mi> <mo>−<!-- − --></mo> <msub> <mi>a</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mn>1</mn> </mrow> </msub> <msubsup> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mn>1</mn> </mrow> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>m</mi> </mrow> </msubsup> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mi>x</mi> <mo>−<!-- − --></mo> <msub> <mi>a</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mn>2</mn> </mrow> </msub> <msubsup> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mn>2</mn> </mrow> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>m</mi> </mrow> </msubsup> <mo>⋯<!-- ⋯ --></mo> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mi>x</mi> <mo>−<!-- − --></mo> <msub> <mi>a</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>n</mi> <mo>−<!-- − --></mo> <mn>1</mn> </mrow> </msub> <msubsup> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>n</mi> <mo>−<!-- − --></mo> <mn>1</mn> </mrow> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>m</mi> </mrow> </msubsup> </mrow> </mfrac> </mrow> <mo>]</mo> </mrow> <mi>y</mi> <mo>=</mo> <mn>0.</mn> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle y''+{\frac {1}{2}}\left[{\frac {m_{1}}{x-a_{1}}}+\cdots +{\frac {m_{n-1}}{x-a_{n-1}}}\right]y'+{\frac {1}{4}}\left[{\frac {A_{0}+A_{1}x+\cdots +A_{\ell }x^{\ell }}{(x-a_{1})_{1}^{m}(x-a_{2})_{2}^{m}\cdots (x-a_{n-1})_{n-1}^{m}}}\right]y=0.}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/6d324b409c4ce5af56a87bff869cd1932fae32f6" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -3.171ex; width:89.905ex; height:7.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle y''+{\frac {1}{2}}\left[{\frac {m_{1}}{x-a_{1}}}+\cdots +{\frac {m_{n-1}}{x-a_{n-1}}}\right]y'+{\frac {1}{4}}\left[{\frac {A_{0}+A_{1}x+\cdots +A_{\ell }x^{\ell }}{(x-a_{1})_{1}^{m}(x-a_{2})_{2}^{m}\cdots (x-a_{n-1})_{n-1}^{m}}}\right]y=0.}"></span></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_Bôcher_Memorial_Prize"><span id="The_B.C3.B4cher_Memorial_Prize"></span>The Bôcher Memorial Prize</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maxime_B%C3%B4cher&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: The Bôcher Memorial Prize"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/B%C3%B4cher_Memorial_Prize" title="Bôcher Memorial Prize">Bôcher Memorial Prize</a> is awarded by the American Mathematical Society every five years for notable research in <a href="/wiki/Mathematical_analysis" title="Mathematical analysis">analysis</a> that has appeared in a recognized North American journal. </p><p>Winners have included <a href="/wiki/James_Waddell_Alexander_II" title="James Waddell Alexander II">James W. Alexander II</a> (1928), <a href="/wiki/Eric_Temple_Bell" title="Eric Temple Bell">Eric Temple Bell</a> (1924), <a href="/wiki/George_D._Birkhoff" class="mw-redirect" title="George D. Birkhoff">George D. Birkhoff</a> (1923), <a href="/wiki/Paul_Cohen_(mathematician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Paul Cohen (mathematician)">Paul J. Cohen</a> (1964), <a href="/wiki/Solomon_Lefschetz" title="Solomon Lefschetz">Solomon Lefschetz</a> (1924), <a href="/wiki/Marston_Morse" title="Marston Morse">Marston Morse</a> and <a href="/wiki/Norbert_Wiener" title="Norbert Wiener">Norbert Wiener</a> (1933), and <a href="/wiki/John_von_Neumann" title="John von Neumann">John von Neumann</a> (1938). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works">Works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maxime_B%C3%B4cher&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1894: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/acv1533.0001.001.umich.edu">Ueber die Reihenentwicklungen der Potentialtheorie</a> via <a href="/wiki/Internet_Archive" title="Internet Archive">Internet Archive</a></li> <li>1900: "Randwertaufgaben bei Gewöhnlich Differentialgleichung", <a href="/wiki/Klein%27s_encyclopedia" class="mw-redirect" title="Klein's encyclopedia"><i>Encyclopädie der mathematischen Wissenschaften</i></a> Band 2–1–1.</li> <li>1907: (with E.P.R.DuVal) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4248862;view=1up;seq=7">Introduction to Higher Algebra</a> via <a href="/wiki/HathiTrust" title="HathiTrust">HathiTrust</a></li> <li>1909: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/introductiontost00bcuoft">Introduction to the study of Integral Equations</a> via Internet Archive</li> <li>1917: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/leonssurlesm00bcuoft">Leçons sur les méthodes de Sturm dans la théorie des équations différentielles linéaires et leurs développements modernes</a> via Internet Archive.</li></ul> <p>Bôcher was one of the editors of the <i><a href="/wiki/Annals_of_Mathematics" title="Annals of Mathematics">Annals of Mathematics</a></i>, of the <a href="/wiki/Transactions_of_the_American_Mathematical_Society" title="Transactions of the American Mathematical Society"><i>Transactions</i> of the American Mathematical Society</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-amer_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-amer-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maxime_B%C3%B4cher&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output 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