Gustave Choquet

Gustave Choquet

Gustave Choquet (1 March 1915 – 14 November 2006) was a French mathematician.

His contributions include work in functional analysis and potential theory. He is known for creating the Choquet theory and the Choquet integral.

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 and Michel L. Lapidus.

He was married to mathematician and mathematical physicist Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat

See also

*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 the London 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 the Société Mathématique de France.
*


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужно решить контрольную?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Gustave Choquet — beim Internationalen Mathematikerkongress in Warschau, 1983 Gustave Alfred Arthur Choquet (* 1. März 1915 in Solesmes; † 14. November 2006 in Lyon) war ein französischer Mathematiker, der sich besonders mit Funktionalanalysis, Potentialtheorie… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Gustave Choquet — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Choquet. Gustave Choquet. Gustave Choquet, né le 1er mars  …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Choquet — ist der Familienname folgender Personen: Gustave Choquet (1915–2006), französischer Mathematiker Yvonne Choquet Bruhat (* 1923), französische Mathematikerin und theoretische Physikerin Siehe auch: Choquet Theorie (nach Gustave Choquet),… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Choquet — may refer to: People: Alain Choquet (1901–1991), a Quebec actor and recording artist Antoine Choquet de Lindu (1712–1790), a French architect and military engineer Gustave Choquet (1915–2006), a French mathematician Yvonne Choquet Bruhat (born… …   Wikipedia

  • Choquet theory — In mathematics, Choquet theory is an area of functional analysis and convex analysis created by Gustave Choquet. It is concerned with measures with support on the extreme points of a convex set C. Roughly speaking, all vectors of C should appear… …   Wikipedia

  • Choquet-Theorie — Die Choquet Theorie (nach Gustave Choquet) ist eine mathematische Theorie aus dem Teilgebiet der Funktionalanalysis. Sie präzisiert die Vorstellung, dass die Punkte einer kompakten, konvexen Menge eines lokalkonvexen Raumes als „Mittelung“ über… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Choquet integral — In decision theory, a Choquet integral is a way of measuring the expected utility of an uncertain event. It is applied specifically to membership functions and capacities. In imprecise probability theory, the Choquet integral is also used to… …   Wikipedia

  • Choquet — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Alain Choquet est un acteur français d origine québécoise. Antoine Choquet de Lindu (1712 1790) est un ingénieur de la Marine et architecte français.… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat — in Oberwolfach, 2006. Yvonne Suzanne Marie Louise Choquet Bruhat[1] (geb. Bruhat; * 29. Dezember 1923 in Lille) ist eine französische Mathematikerin und theoretische Physikerin, die sich mit partiellen Differentialgleichungen …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Daniel Choquet — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Choquet et Bruhat. Atacama, 2011 Daniel Choquet (23 avril 1962 à …   Wikipédia en Français

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”