author
Ernest Lebon
1846–1922
Best known for writing clear, carefully researched studies of major scientists, he brought the history of mathematics and astronomy to a wide readership in France. His books on figures such as Henri Poincaré and Gaston Darboux blend biography with detailed bibliographies, making them useful to both curious readers and scholars.
3 Audiobooks
Gaston Darboux: Biographie, Bibliographie analytique des écrits
by Ernest Lebon
Paul Appell: Biographie, Bibliographie Analytique des Écrits
by Ernest Lebon
Henri Poincaré: Biographie, Bibliographie Analytique des Écrits
by Ernest Lebon
About the author
A French mathematician, teacher, translator, and scientific biographer, Ernest Lebon was born in 1846 and died in 1922. Library and reference sources identify him as the author of works on mathematics and astronomy, including Histoire abrégée de l’astronomie and biographical studies devoted to leading scientists.
Lebon is especially remembered for books that combined life stories with analytical bibliographies. Among them are his studies of Henri Poincaré, Gaston Darboux, and the chemist Albin Haller, written in a style that aimed to document both the person and the body of work.
Reference pages also describe him as a mathematics professor in several lycées before he taught descriptive geometry at the Lycée Charlemagne in Paris, and as a translator of mathematical texts. A suitable verified portrait was not clearly available from the sources checked, so no profile image is included.