Marie Charpentier
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Jeanne Radegonde Marie Charpentier (30 October 1903 – 9 October 1994)[1][2][3] was a French mathematician. She was the first woman to obtain a doctorate in pure mathematics in France,[1] and the second woman, after Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin, to obtain a faculty position in mathematics at a university in France.[4]
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Marie Charpentier | |
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![]() Charpentier in 1932 | |
Born | Jeanne Radegonde Marie Charpentier 30 October 1903 Poitiers, France |
Died | October 9, 1994(1994-10-09) (aged 90) Poitiers, France |
Nationality | French |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Poitiers |
Thesis | On the Peano points of a first-order differential equation (1931) |
Doctoral advisor | Paul Montel |
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Discipline | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Rennes |
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Charpentier was born in Poitiers, the daughter of Michel Marie Eugène Charpentier and Marie Thérèse Geneviève Rondelet, on either 29[5] or 30 October 1903.[6]