René Maurice Fréchet
French mathematician (1878–1973) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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René Maurice Fréchet (French: [ʁəne mɔʁis fʁeʃɛ, moʁ-]; 2 September 1878 – 4 June 1973) was a French mathematician. He made major contributions to general topology and was the first to define metric spaces. He also made several important contributions to the field of statistics and probability, as well as calculus. His dissertation opened the entire field of functionals on metric spaces and introduced the notion of compactness. Independently of Riesz, he discovered the representation theorem in the space of Lebesgue square integrable functions. He is often referred to as the founder of the theory of abstract spaces.[1]
Quick Facts Maurice Fréchet, Born ...
Maurice Fréchet | |
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Born | (1878-09-02)2 September 1878 Maligny, France |
Died | 4 June 1973(1973-06-04) (aged 94) Paris, France |
Nationality | French |
Alma mater | École Normale Supérieure |
Known for | Metric spaces, Fréchet spaces, Fréchet distribution, Fréchet distance |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Bordeaux University of Strasbourg École des Hautes-Études École Normale Supérieure |
Doctoral advisor | Jacques Hadamard |
Doctoral students | Nachman Aronszajn Robert Fortet Đuro Kurepa Ky Fan Antonio Monteiro |
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