Du Pasquier studied at l'École Polytechnique, the University of Zurich, La Sorbonne, the Collège de France, and the Collège Libre des Sciences Sociales.
He received his doctorate in 1906 from the University of Zurich with dissertation Zahlentheorie der Tettarionen under the supervision of Adolf Hurwitz.
[1][2] Du Pasquier then taught at La Chaux-de-Fonds, Kusnacht, Frauenfeld, Winterthur, and Zurich, before he became a professor at the University of Neuchâtel in 1911.
Du Pasquier wrote more than 60 articles published in scientific journals.
Du Pasquier was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1920 at Strasbourg, in 1924 at Toronto,[5] in 1928 at Bologna, and in 1932 at Zurich.