Joseph Pérès

Joseph Jean Camille Pérès (born October 31, 1890 in Clermont-Ferrand , † February 12, 1962 in Paris ) was a French applied mathematician who dealt with hydrodynamics.

Pérès was the son of a philosopher and studied from 1908 at the École normal supérieure . He was a student of Émile Borel , who introduced him to Vito Volterra , with whom he was working on his dissertation in Rome. Before that he started to work as a teacher at the high school in Montpellier . In 1915 he received his doctorate at Volterra with the work Sur les fonctions permutable de première espèce de M. Vito Volterra . He taught at the universities (then Faculté des Sciences) of Toulouse and Strasbourg and in 1921 became professor of rational mechanics at the University of Marseille , where he founded the Institute of Hydrodynamics in 1930. In 1932 he became a professor at the Sorbonne , where he was dean of the Faculté des Sciences from 1954 to 1961.

In 1942 he became a member of the Académie des Sciences , from which he received several prizes. In 1937 he was president of the Société Mathématique de France . In 1956 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences .

In addition to hydrodynamics (theory of viscous fluids, theory of eddies), he dealt with functional analysis in the tradition of Volterra (theory of integral equations). A joint work Theory generale des fonctionelles from 1936 did not get beyond the first volume, as it was already completely out of date and overtaken by the then very active research ( Stefan Banach , John von Neumann and others).

Web links

• John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson :  Joseph Pérès. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Joseph Pérès in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)