| Maurice Fréchet  AKA Maurice René Fréchet
Born: 2-Sep-1878
Birthplace: Maligny, France
Died: 4-Jun-1973
Location of death: Paris, France
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France
Gender: Male
Religion: Protestant
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Mathematician Nationality: France
Executive summary: Fréchet differential Military service: French Army (1914-16, WWI) French mathematician Maurice-René Fréchet studied under Jacques-Salomon Hadamard, and laid out the concept of metric space in his doctoral thesis. He also did extensive work on general topology and functional analysis, developed a theory of integration in abstract spaces, defined a polynomial in abstract linear spaces, and determined the Fréchet differential of a functional. Father: Jacques Fréchet (school master)
Mother: Zoé Fréchet (boarding house operator)
Wife: Suzanne Carrive (m. 3-Sep-1908, four children)
High School: Lycée Buffon, Paris, France
University: BS Mathematics, École Normale Supérieure (1903)
University: DSc Mathematics, University of Bordeaux (1906)
Teacher: Mathematics, Besançon Lycée, Besançon, France (1907-08)
Teacher: Mathematics, Nantes Lycée, Nantes, France (1908-10)
Professor: Mathematics, University of Poitiers (1910-19)
Professor: Mathematics, University of Strasbourg (1919-29)
Professor: Mathematics, University of Paris (1929-49)
French Legion of Honor
French Academy of Sciences
International Statistical Institute
Polish Academy of Sciences Foreign Member
Royal Society of Edinburgh Foreign Member
Esperanto speakers
French Ancestry
Author of books:
L'équation de Fredholm (1912, with H. B. Heywood)
Les espaces abstraits (1928)
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