Maurice René Fréchet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Maurice René Fréchet

French mathematician

Date of Birth: 02-Sep-1878

Place of Birth: Maligny, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

Date of Death: 04-Jun-1973

Profession: mathematician, Esperantist, university teacher, statistician

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Maurice René Fréchet (French: [m??is ??ne f?e??, mo?-]; 2 September 1878 – 4 June 1973) was a French mathematician.
He made major contributions to the topology of point sets and introduced the entire concept of 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.
Independently of Riesz, he discovered the representation theorem in the space of Lebesgue square integrable functions.