Paul Montel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Paul Montel

French mathematician

Date of Birth: 29-Apr-1876

Place of Birth: Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Date of Death: 22-Jan-1975

Profession: mathematician

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Paul Antoine Aristide Montel (29 April 1876 – 22 January 1975) was a French mathematician.
He was born in Nice, France and died in Paris, France.
He researched mostly on holomorphic functions in complex analysis. Montel was a student of Émile Borel at the Sorbonne.
Henri Cartan, Jean Dieudonné and Miron Nicolescu were among his students. Montel's most important contribution to mathematics was the introduction and systematic development of the notion of normal family. This very influential book also contains the first exposition in the book form of the results of Pierre Fatou and Gaston Julia on holomorphic dynamics.
The notion of normal family was a predecessor of the notion of compact space introduced by Pavel Alexandrov and Pavel Urysohn in 1929.