Paul Montel
Paul Antoine Aristide Montel (born April 29, 1876 in Nice , † January 22, 1975 in Paris ) was a French mathematician.
Montel was the son of a photographer and attended high school in Nice. After studying from 1894 to 1897 at the École normal supérieure in Paris, he first worked as a high school teacher in Poitiers , Nantes and Paris. In 1907, at the insistence of friends who recognized his potential, he did his doctorate in Paris at the Sorbonne (with Henri Lebesgue and Émile Borel and Paul Painlevé ), but returned to his teaching profession. In his dissertation Sur les suites infinies de fonctions he introduced his concept of normal families of functions into function theory. B. Found application in the theory of the iteration of analytical functions ( Gaston Julia 1918, Pierre Fatou ). In 1911 he was initially a lecturer at the "Faculté des Sciences" and then from 1918 as a professor. During the German occupation of France he was dean of the faculty. His students included Jean Dieudonné and Henri Cartan , among others . Montel was editor of the journals Annales scientifiques de l'École normal supérieure and Bulletin des Sciences Mathematiques .
In 1937 he was elected to the French Academy of Sciences. He was also a Grand Officer of the French Legion of Honor . In 1925 he was president of the Société Mathématique de France .
See also
literature
- Jean Dieudonné , Paul Montel, in Dictionary of Scientific Biography
- FJ Beer: Paul Montel, mathématicien niçois, Nice 1966
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Paul Montel. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
Web link
- Paul Montel in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Montel, Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Montel, Paul Antoine Aristide |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 29, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nice |
| DATE OF DEATH | 22nd January 1975 |
| Place of death | Paris |