Gustave Choquet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French mathematician who worked in functional analysis, topology and measure theory
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Place of Birth: Solesmes, Hauts-de-France, France
About Gustave Choquet
- Gustave Choquet (French: [??k?]; 1 March 1915 – 14 November 2006) was a French mathematician. Choquet was born in Solesmes, Nord.
- His contributions include work in functional analysis, potential theory, topology and measure theory.
- He is known for creating the Choquet theory, the Choquet integral and the theory of capacities. He did postgraduate work at the École Normale Supérieure Paris where his advisor was Arnaud Denjoy.
- He was Professor at the University 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 the Académie des Sciences, and an Officier of the Légion d’Honneur. His students include Haïm Brezis, Gilles Godefroy, Nassif Ghoussoub, Michel L.
- Lapidus, and Michel Talagrand. He was married to mathematician and mathematical physicist Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat.
- He died in Lyon in 2006.
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