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Maurice René Fréchet
French mathematician (1878–1973)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 2 September 1878
- Died
- 4 June 1973
- Conflict
- World War I
- Place of birth
- Maligny
- Place of death
- 14th arrondissement of Paris
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Fréchet
- Field of work
- mathematical analysis, functional analysis, probability theory, mathematics
- Occupation
- mathematician, Esperantist, statistician, university teacher, philosopher of science, pedagogue
- Position held
- president
- Citizenship
- France
- Awards
- Émile Picard Medal, Poncelet Prize, Ayme-Poirson price, Officer of the Legion of Honour, Montyon Prize, Petit d'Ormoy, Carriere, Thebault Award, Knight of the Legion of Honour, Fellow of the Econometric Society, Inter-Allied Victory medal (France), Q137046029, Q125844155
- academic degree
- doctorate
- academic thesis
- Q84044420
- archives at
- French Academy of Sciences
- birth name
- René Maurice Fréchet
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978)
- doctoral advisor
- Jacques Hadamard
- doctoral student
- Robert Fortet, Nachman Aronszajn, Đuro Kurepa, Wolfgang Doeblin, Christian Pauc, Ky Fan, Chen Chuanzhang, Antonio Monteiro, Jean Ville, Slobodan S. Zarkovich, Abolghassem Ghaffari, Antoine Appert
- educated at
- École Normale Supérieure, Lycée Buffon, Lycée Saint-Louis
- employer
- University of Poitiers, University of Strasbourg, École Normale Supérieure, École pratique des hautes études, University of Provence - Aix-Marseille I
- Erdős number
- 3
- member of
- French Academy of Sciences, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Econometric Society, Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences, Société française de biométrie
- name in native language
- Maurice René Fréchet
- notable work
- Fréchet space, Fréchet manifold, Fréchet distribution, Fréchet filter, Fréchet derivative, Fréchet distance, Fréchet mean, Fréchet algebra, Fréchet inequalities, Fréchet surface, Fréchet principle
- place of burial
- Cimetière parisien de Bagneux
- student of
- Émile Borel, Jacques Hadamard
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