Maxime Bôcher

Maxime Bôcher was an American mathematician, born in Boston in 1867, who published about 100 papers on differential equations, series and algebra and wrote elementary texts such as Trigonometry and Analytic Geometry. Bôcher theorem, Bôcher equation and the Bôcher Memorial Prize are named after him. He received his first degree from Harvard in 1888, then went to the University of Goettingen, the leading mathematics university of the day, where he attended lectures by Felix Klein, Arthur Schoenflies, Hermann Schwarz, Issai Schur and Woldemar Voigt, and was awarded a doctorate in 1891 for a dissertation on the development of the potential function into series. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1899 and the National Academy of Sciences in 1909.