Claude Chabauty
Claude Chabauty (born May 4, 1910 in Oran , † June 2, 1990 in Grenoble ) was a French mathematician .
From 1929 he attended the École normal supérieure . In 1938 he received his doctorate on number theory. He was a professor in Strasbourg. In 1954 he succeeded Marcel Brelot at the University of Grenoble as director of the laboratory for pure mathematics, which he headed for 22 years. He dealt with Diophantine approximation and the geometry of numbers. He was one of the first mathematicians to use classical analysis and p-adic analysis in number theoretic problems with equal success.
literature
- Annales de L'Institut Fourier, vol. XXIX, Fasc. 1, 1979
- L'Annuaire des Ancièns Élèves de l'École Normale Supérieure, 1991
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Appreciation in the Annales de l´Institut Fourier, Volume 29, 1979, on the occasion of his retirement, see web links
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| SURNAME | Chabauty, Claude |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 4, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oran |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 2, 1990 |
| Place of death | Grenoble |