Awarded Ayme-Poirson price (2014).
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Maurice René Fréchet
René Maurice Fréchet 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 discover…
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science · French mathematician (1878–1973) · mathematician · Esperantist · statistician · university teacher · philosopher of science · pedagogue · also Maurice René Fréchet, René Maurice Fréchet, Maurice Fréchet, Maurice Rene Frechet, Maurice Frechet, Fréchet
Born 2 September 1878 · Died 4 June 1973 · Q22662
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1973· 1 entry
Died 1973-06-04.
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1950· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Econometric Society (1950).
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1947· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1947).
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1946· 1 entry
Won Émile Picard Medal (1946).
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1941· 1 entry
Fréchet succeeded Borel as chair in the Calculus of Probabilities and Mathematical Physics, a position Fréchet held until he retired in 1949
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1935· 1 entry
Awarded Petit d'Ormoy, Carriere, Thebault Award (1935).
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1934· 1 entry
Awarded Poncelet Prize (1934).
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1933· 1 entry
And to Chair of Differential and Integral Calculus in 1935
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1929· 1 entry
Became foreign member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1950 foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
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1928· 1 entry
Fréchet decided to move back to Paris, thanks to encouragement from Borel, who was then chair in the Calculus of Probabilities and Mathematical Physics at the Sorbonne
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1926· 1 entry
Won Inter-Allied Victory medal (France) (1926).
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1925· 1 entry
Awarded Montyon Prize (1925).
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1923· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1923).
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1908· 1 entry
To the Lycée in Nantes to stay there for a year
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1903· 1 entry
Studied at École Normale Supérieure (1900–1903).
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1900· 1 entry
Enrolled to École Normale Supérieure to study mathematics
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1894· 1 entry
Hadamard continuously wrote to Fréchet, setting him mathematical problems and harshly criticising his errors
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1878· 1 entry
Born 1878-09-02.
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