References for Paul Painlevé

1. L Felix, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
   http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Paul_Painleve.aspx
2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica.
   http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9058014/Paul-Painleve

Books:

3. Paroles et écrits de Paul Painlevé (Paris, 1936).

Articles:

4. R Hermann, The geometric foundations of the integrability property of differential equations and physical systems : Mechanics on affinely-connected manifolds and the work of Kowalewski and Painlevé, J. Math. Phys. 25 (4) (1984), 778-785.
5. Paul Painlevé: essential biographical data, Painlevé transcendents, NATO Adv. Sci. Inst. Ser. B Phys. 278 (New York, 1992), xvii-xxvi.

October 2003