Paul Appell — Alsatian refugee, rector of the Sorbonne, and author of the great treatise on rational mechanics — is portrayed in Ernest Lebon’s Paul Appell through both a biography and a complete analytical bibliography of his writings, in the fine French tradition of honouring living savants with scholarly precision.
It is a portrait of the French mathematical establishment at its Belle Époque height. Download the free EPUB, in French, for the life and works of a pillar of the Sorbonne.