- Gustave Choquet
Gustave Choquet (
1 March 1915 –14 November 2006 ) was a Frenchmathematician .His contributions include work in
functional analysis andpotential theory . He is known for creating theChoquet theory and theChoquet integral .He did postgraduate work at the
École Normale Supérieure Paris where his advisor wasArnaud Denjoy .He was Professor at theUniversity of Paris (subsequently Paris VI) from 1940 to 1984 and was also Professor at the [École Polytechnique] from 1960 to 1969.His honours and awards included being a Member of theAcadémie des Sciences , and an Officier of theLégion_d’Honneur .His students include
Haïm Brezis ,Gilles Godefroy ,Nassif Ghoussoub andMichel L. Lapidus .He was married to mathematician and mathematical physicist
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat See also
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Choquet theory
*Choquet integral External links
* [http://www.academie-sciences.fr/MEMBRES/C/Choquet_Gustave.htm A biography (in French)] by the
Académie des Sciences .
* [http://www.universalis.fr/encyclopedie/T070181/CHOQUET_G.htm A short biography (in French).]
* [http://www.lms.ac.uk/newsletter/355/355_09.html A brief obituary] from the [http://www.lms.ac.uk/newsletter/355/355main.html January 2007 Newsletter] of theLondon Mathematical Society .
* [http://smf.emath.fr/Publications/Gazette/2007/111/smf_gazette_111_74-89.pdf A commemorative section] (396kb PDF) of the [http://smf.emath.fr/Publications/Gazette/2007/111/ N° 111 Gazette des Mathématiciens (2007)] of theSociété Mathématique de France .
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