Maurice René Fréchet Scientist

Maurice Fréchet (French pronunciation: ​[moʁis ʁəne fʁeʃɛ]) (2 September 1878 – 4 June 1973) was a French mathematician. He made major contributions to the topology of point sets and introduced the entire concept of metric spaces. He also made several important contributions to the field of statistics and probability, as well as calculus. His dissertation opened the entire field of functionals on metric spaces and introduced the notion of compactness. Independently of Riesz, he discovered the representation theorem in the space of Lebesgue square integrable functions.

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Maurice René Fréchet
Birth dateSeptember 02, 1878
Birth place
Maligny Yonne
Date of deathJune 04, 1973
Education
École Normale Supérieure
Known for
Functional analysis
Metric space

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