René Gâteaux

René Eugène Gâteaux (born May 5, 1889 in Vitry-le-François , † October 3, 1914 in Rouvroy near Lens ) was a French mathematician .

Life

Gateaux was a student of Jacques Hadamard . From 1907 he studied at the École Normale Supérieure and in 1910 put the Agrégation in mathematics. After his military service he became a high school teacher in Bar-le-Duc in 1912 . 1913-1914 he was for his doctoral studies with a scholarship in Rome with Vito Volterra , where he published several grades in the Rendicondi of the Accademia dei Lincei . He was drafted into the infantry as a reserve lieutenant in 1914 and fell during the first few months of the First World War .

He is best known for the Gâteaux derivative . Part of his work was only published posthumously by Paul Lévy .

In 1916 he was posthumously awarded the Prix ​​Francoeur of the French Academy at the instigation of Jacques Hadamard.

literature

• R. Gâteaux: Sur les fonctionnelles continues et les fonctionnelles analytiques . In: Comptes rendus de l'academie des sciences, Paris, Vol. 157 (1913) . Pp. 325-327. Retrieved December 31, 2010.
• R. Gâteaux: Sur la notion d'intégrale dans le domaine fonctionnel et sur la théorie du potentiel (PDF; 1.4 MB) In: Bulletin de la Société Mathématique de France tome 47 (1919) . Pp. 47-70. Retrieved December 31, 2010.
• R. Gâteaux: Sur diverses questions du calcul fonctionnel (PDF; 2.2 MB) In: Bulletin de la Société Mathématique de France tome 50 (1922) . Pp. 1-37. Retrieved December 31, 2010.

Web links

• John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson :  René Gâteaux. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive . (Article by Laurent Mazliak)
• Levy, Paul, A biography from the MacTutor History of Mathematics . Retrieved December 31, 2010.