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The mathematician Émile Picard was born in Paris on July 24, 1856. He was educated at the Lycée Henri-IV; at the École Normale Supérieure, where Briot, Bouquet, and Darboux were among his teachers and Appell was a fellow-student; and at the University of Paris, whose doctorate he took in 1877.

After a brief period as Professor at the University of Toulouse he returned to the École Normale as maître des conférences, and to the Sorbonne, where he succeeded Hermite at the age of thirty and subsequently taught in two other Chairs of Mathematics.

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From 1893 he was also Professor of Mécanique Générale at the école Centrale des Arts et Manufactures.

Picard was primarily an analyst. One of his earliest published papers (1879) contains the striking result from which the modern theory of integral functions of a complex variable has developed.

Picard's theorem is that an integral function, i.e. one that has no singularity except at infinity, assumes every v