Jean Kuntzmann

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Jean Kuntzmann (* 1912 ; † December 19, 1992 in Grenoble ) was a French applied mathematician and computer scientist . He was professor and head of the applied mathematics department at the Faculté des Sciences in Grenoble, where he set up the first numerical mathematics laboratory there in 1951, which later became the computer science department of the University of Grenoble.

In 1929 he won the first prize in mathematics in the national entrance exams for the Grande Ecoles (Concours Général) and then studied mathematics at the École normal supérieure , with the degree (Agrégation) in 1934. After a stay in Germany, he received his doctorate in 1940 with Georges Valiron ( Contribution à l'étude des systèmes multiformes ). In 1939 he was drafted and was a prisoner of war until 1945. During this time he became Maître de conférences in Grenoble in 1942, where he was professor from 1945 after the war. Grenoble was primarily a university for the training of engineers, for which purpose he developed a mathematics curriculum. Felix Esclangon was the director of the Polytechnic at the time . Close cooperation with industry (and the French state aeronautical research) formed the basis for the development of the Numerical Mathematics Laboratory and the Computer Science Institute in Grenoble. Later, among other things, the Institut d'informatique et mathématiques appliquées de Grenoble (IMAG) emerged. Kuntzmann was also the founder of ENSIMAG ( École nationale supérieure d'informatique et de mathématiques appliquées ) in Grenoble in 1958 .

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  • Methodes numériques; Interpolations, Dérivées , Dunod 1959
  • Mathématiques de la Physique et de la Technique , Hermann 1961
  • Algèbre de Boole , Dunod, 1965, 1969
  • Où vont les mathématiques? Reflexions sur l´enseignement et la recherche , Hermann 1967
  • Séries , Hermann, 1967
    • German translation: Infinite series , WTB, Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1971
  • Systèmes différentiels , Hermann 1967
    • German translation: Systems of differential equations , WTB, Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1970
  • Variable Complexe , Hermann 1967
    • German translation: Complex Variables , WTB, Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1970
  • with P. Naslin Algèbres de Boole et machines logiques , Dunod 1968
  • Fundamental Boolean Algebra , London, Blackie 1967
  • Méthodes numériques , Hermann 1969
  • Théorie des Réseaux-Graphes , Dunod 1972
  • Apport de l'Informatique à l'Enseignement des Mathématiques , Cedic 1974
  • Evaluation et critiques des enseignements mathématiques , Cedic 1976

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SURNAME Kuntzmann, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH 1912
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1992
Place of death Grenoble