Gustave Dumas, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gustave Dumas

Born: 5 March 1872 in L'Etivaz, Vaud canton, Switzerland; Died: 11 July 1955

Date of Birth: 05-Mar-1872

Place of Birth: Château-d'Œx, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland

Date of Death: 11-Jul-1955

Profession: mathematician

Nationality: Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Gustave Dumas (5 March 1872, L'Etivaz, Vaud, Switzerland – 11 July 1955) was a Swiss mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry.Dumas received a baccalaureate degree from the University of Lausanne, then another baccalaureate degree from the Sorbonne, and in 1904 a doctoral degree from the Sorbonne with dissertation Sur les fonctions à caractère algébrique dans le voisinage d'un point donné.
In 1906 he obtained his habilitation qualification from Zürich's Federal Polytechnic School with habilitation dissertation Sur quelques cas d'irréductibilité des polynômes à coefficients rationnels.
From 1906 to 1913 Dumas taught higher mathematics at the Federal Polytechnic School.
At the University of Lausanne's Engineering School, he became in 1913 a professor extraordinarius and in 1916 a professor ordinarius, retiring in 1942.
At Lausanne he had an important influence on his student Georges de Rham, who became Dumas's assistant before graduating in 1925.Dumas served a two-year term as president of the Swiss Mathematical Society in 1922–1923.
He was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1928 at Bologna.