Pierre Dugac

Pierre Dugac (born July 12, 1926 in Bosanska Dubica , Yugoslavia , † March 7, 2000 in Paris ) was a French mathematician.

Dugac left Yugoslavia in 1945 and went to Paris via Italy . In 1966 he became a French citizen. He studied literature and then mathematics and in 1964 became assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, where he retired in 1991. In 1978 he received his doctorate on the history of the foundations of analysis from Cauchy to René Baire . He was the director of the mathematics history seminar at the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris and from 1980 published its magazine Cahiers , in which numerous original documents were also published. As a science historian, he was primarily concerned with the increasing rigor in the fundamentals of analysis during the 19th and early 20th centuries, especially in the French school, for example Henri Lebesgue , Émile Borel , Arnaud Denjoy and René Baire.

He wrote a biography of Jean Dieudonné (1995) and the book "Richard Dedekind et les fondements de la mathématique" (Paris 1976, with numerous previously unpublished documents).

In 1990 he became a corresponding member of the Paris Academy of Sciences .

Fonts

• Eléments d'analysis de Karl Weierstrass. In: Archive for History of Exact Sciences . Vol. 10, No. 1/2, 1973, pp. 41-176, JSTOR 41133363 .
• Histoire de l'analysis. Autour de la notion de limit et de ses voisinages. Texts édité par Bernard Bru and Roger Laurent. Vuibert, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-7117-5311-5 .

literature

• Obituary in Revue d'histoire des mathématiques. Vol. 5, No. 2, 1999, ISSN  1262-022X , pp. 303-315, ( online ).