Geneviève Guitel

Geneviève Guitel (born May 24, 1895 in Marly-le-Roi , † July 30, 1982 in Neuilly-sur-Seine ) was a French mathematician. It is best known for the introduction of the pair of terms Échelle longue et échelle courte ( long and short scales ) to designate the two most widely used number name systems in the world in the decimal system .

Guitel took first place in the competition for the Agrégation in Mathematics in 1920 and was then a mathematics teacher at the Lycée Molière in Paris.

In 1953 she received her doctorate at the Sorbonne (doctoral thesis: Étude métrique des familles de tétraèdres et de figures apparentées ). In 1955, her dissertation was awarded the Opponent Prize of the Académie des Sciences .

She published as a mathematician at least in the period 1943–1979.

Publications

Among other things, she published Histoire comparée des numérations écrites (Flammarion 1975), where they are on p. 51-52 and in the chapter "Les grands nombres en numération parlée", p. 566-574, (in German: The large numbers literally ) made use of the terms échelle longue and échelle courte for the first time .

In the 1960s she also published on mathematics in Babylonian cuneiform texts.

Individual evidence

↑ André Chervel: Les agrégés de l'enseignement secondaire. Repertoire 1809-1950. Laboratoire de recherche historique Rhône-Alpes, accessed on June 23, 2014 (French).
↑ Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences , séance du 5 December 1955, vol. 241, p. 1658. Retrieved June 27, 2014 .
↑ http://www.centre-charles-moraze.msh-paris.fr/IMG/pdf/moz17-4.pdf pp 474-475.
^ Geneviève Guitel: Histoire comparée des numérations écrites . Flammarion, Paris 1975, p. 51-52 (French).
^ Geneviève Guitel: Histoire comparée des numérations écrites . Flammarion, Paris 1975, Les grands nombres en numération parlée, p. 566-574 (French).

personal data
SURNAME	Guitel, Geneviève
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	May 24, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH	Marly-le-Roi
DATE OF DEATH	July 30, 1982
Place of death	Neuilly-sur-Seine

[1] André Chervel: Les agrégés de l'enseignement secondaire. Repertoire 1809-1950. Laboratoire de recherche historique Rhône-Alpes, accessed on June 23, 2014 (French).

[Académie-2] Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences , séance du 5 December 1955, vol. 241, p. 1658. Retrieved June 27, 2014 .

[3] ttp://www.centre-charles-moraze.msh-paris.fr/IMG/pdf/moz17-4.pdf pp 474-475.

[4] Geneviève Guitel: Histoire comparée des numérations écrites . Flammarion, Paris 1975, p. 51-52 (French).

[5] Geneviève Guitel: Histoire comparée des numérations écrites . Flammarion, Paris 1975, Les grands nombres en numération parlée, p. 566-574 (French).