Facts: - death place: versailles , france - residence: france - fields: mathematics - death date: 23 may 1889 - spouse: rose marguerite aron - birth date: 30 october 1844 - name: georges henri halphen - image: georges henri halphen.jpg - birth place: rouen , france Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of georges henri halphen .
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georges henri halphen -lrb- 30 october 1844 , rouen -- 23 may 1889 , versailles -rrb- was a french mathematician .he did his studies at Ecole polytechnique -lrb- x 1862 -rrb- .he was known for his work in geometry , particularly in enumerative geometry and the singularity theory of algebraic curves , in algebraic geometry .he also worked on invariant theory and projective differential geometry .he received in the steiner prize of the prussian academy of sciences in 1880 along with max noether .in 1881 halphen received the grand prize of the '' academie des sciences '' for his work on linear differential equations '' memoire sur la reduction des equations differentielles lineaires aux formes integrales '' .he received the '' prix poncelet '' in 1883 and the '' prix d'ormoy '' in 1885 .he was elected to the '' academie des sciences '' in 1886 in the '' section de geometrie '' , replacing the deceased jean-claude bouquet .in 1887 halphen was elected to the accademia dei lincei in rome .in 1872 he married rose marguerite aron , with whom he had eight children , four sons and four daughters .of the four sons , three joined the military and two of them died in wwi .one of his grandsons was Etienne halphen -lrb- 1911 -- 1954 -rrb- , who did significant work in applied statistics .