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Maurice René Fréchet

1878 - 1973

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René Maurice Fréchet (French: [ʁəne mɔʁis fʁeʃɛ, moʁ-]; 2 September 1878 – 4 June 1973) was a French mathematician. He made major contributions to general topology and was the first to define 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Maurice René Fréchet is the 130th most popular mathematician (up from 326th in 2019), the 866th most popular biography from France (up from 2,297th in 2019) and the 27th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Maurice René Fréchet ranks 130 out of 1,004. Before him are Brook Taylor, Jean-Victor Poncelet, Hippocrates of Chios, Paul Ehrenfest, Jacques Hadamard, and Lodovico Ferrari. After him are Charles Hermite, Émile Borel, Theon of Alexandria, Andrew Wiles, Meton of Athens, and Liu Hui.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Maurice René Fréchet ranks 18. Before him are Alfred Döblin, Robert Walser, Lucien Febvre, Pyotr Wrangel, Ferenc Molnár, and Paul Reynaud. After him are Ernest King, Milan Nedić, Gemma Galgani, George Whipple, Shigeru Yoshida, and Sergio Osmeña. Among people deceased in 1973, Maurice René Fréchet ranks 42. Before him are Ingeborg Bachmann, Gerard Kuiper, Jacques Maritain, Hans Albert Einstein, Lon Chaney Jr., and Amílcar Cabral. After him are Frank Costello, Luis Carrero Blanco, Dickinson W. Richards, Jean-Pierre Melville, Emmy Göring, and Elsa Schiaparelli.

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In France

Among people born in France, Maurice René Fréchet ranks 866 out of 6,770. Before him are Princess Augusta of Bavaria (1788), Pierre Méchain (1744), Arnaut Daniel (1150), Theobald I of Navarre (1201), Liliane Bettencourt (1922), and Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656). After him are Antoine Meillet (1866), Marie François Sadi Carnot (1837), Dora Maar (1907), Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (1279), Pierre Janssen (1824), and Jean Victor Marie Moreau (1763).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Maurice René Fréchet ranks 27. Before him are Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752), Émile Picard (1856), Alexis Clairaut (1713), Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698), Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788), and Jacques Hadamard (1865). After him are Charles Hermite (1822), Émile Borel (1871), Henri Lebesgue (1875), Gabriel Lamé (1795), Joseph Liouville (1809), and Michel Rolle (1652).

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