Marie-Hélène Schwartz

Marie-Hélène Schwartz (born October 27, 1913 in Paris ; † January 5, 2013 there ) was a French mathematician .

Life

She was the daughter of the mathematician Paul Lévy and studied (as one of the first women) at the École normal supérieure . In 1938 she married her fellow student Laurent Schwartz . In the following years her career was interrupted because of tuberculosis and the difficulties of the occupation (she was Jewish like Laurent Schwartz and had to go into hiding). After the war she did her doctorate with André Lichnerowicz (dissertation: Formules apparentées à celles de Gauss-Bonnet et de Nevanlinna-Ahlfors pour certaines applications d'une variété à n dimensions dans une autre ) while teaching at the University of Reims. From 1964 she taught as a professor at the University of Lille. In 1981 she retired. She published mathematical works until the 1980s. In 1986 there was a conference in her honor at the University of Lille. On the occasion of her 80th birthday, a symposium with lectures was held, at which she gave a two-hour lecture on her work.

In 1956 she was visiting professor in Bogotá .

Marie-Hélène Schwartz dealt with complex analysis, later with differential geometry and fiber spaces, and is known for work on characteristic numbers of singular spaces.

With Schwartz she had a daughter, Claudine Robert, professor of statistics in Grenoble .

literature

Jean-Paul Brasselet: On the subject of champs radiaux, an aspect de l'oeuvre mathématique de Marie-Hélène Schwartz . In: Gazette des Mathématiciens, Volume 138, 2013, pp. 61–71.

Fonts

Formules apparentées a la formule de Gauss-Bonnet pour certaines applications d'une variété an dimensions dans une autre , Acta Mathematica, Volume 91, 1954, pp. 189-244. Project Euclid
Champs radiaux sur une stratification analytique , Paris: Hermann 1991
Classes de Chern et ensembles analytiques , Paris: Hermann 2000

Web links

Michèle Audin, Claude Sabbah: Marie-Hélène Schwartz , CNRS, Images des Mathématiques
Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach: Women mathematicians in France in the mid-twentieth century (Arxiv 2015)
Literature by and about Marie-Hélène Schwartz in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)

Individual evidence

^ Marie-Hélène Schwartz in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English) . The dissertation was published in Acta Mathematica 1954. In it she stated that Georges Valiron proposed the subject.

personal data
SURNAME	Schwartz, Marie-Hélène
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	October 27, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paris
DATE OF DEATH	5th January 2013
Place of death	Paris

[1] Marie-Hélène Schwartz in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English) . The dissertation was published in Acta Mathematica 1954. In it she stated that Georges Valiron proposed the subject.