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Fréchet, Maurice, 1878-1973

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Personal name headingFréchet, Maurice, 1878-1973
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Variant(s)Fréchet, M. (Maurice), 1878-
Fréchet, Maurice René, 1878-1973
Birth date1878-09-02
Death date1973-06-04
Place of birthMaligny (France)
Place of deathParis (France)
Profession or occupationMathematicians College teachers
Found inLCCN 10-181: Hadamard, J. Leçons sur le calcul des variations, 1910 (hdg.: Fréchet, Maurice, 1878- ; usage: M. Fréchet)
LC data base, 11-16-84 (hdg.: Fréchet, Maurice, 1878- ; usage: Maurice Fréchet)
National Library of France in VIAF, 2 May 2017 (hdg.: Fréchet, Maurice, 1878-1973; b. 2 Sep. 1878 in Maligny; d. 4 June 1973 in Paris)
Wikipedia, 2 May 2017 (Maurice Frechet (2 September 1878 - 4 June 1973); Maurice René Fréchet; was a French mathematician; made important contributions to the topology of point sets and introduced the entire concept of metric spaces; also made several important contributions to the field of statistics and probability, as well as calculus; born in Maligny, France; died in Paris, France; educated at École Normale Supérieure to study mathematics; served as professor of mathematics at the Lycée in Besanc̦on (1907-1908) and Nantes (1908-1909), then at the University of Poitiers (1910-1919))
How Products are Made forum, 2 May 2017 (Maurice-René Fréchet (1878-1973); b. 2 Sep. 1878 in Maligny, France; developed the concept of abstract space by extrapolating from what was known about three-dimensional space)
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