MATHEMATICIAN

Maurice René Fréchet

1878 - 1973

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René Maurice Fréchet (French: [ʁəne mɔʁis fʁeʃɛ, moʁ-]; 2 September 1878 – 4 June 1973) was a French mathematician. He made major contributions to general topology and was the first to define metric spaces. He also made several important contributions to the field of statistics and probability, as well as calculus. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maurice René Fréchet has received more than 134,641 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Maurice René Fréchet is the 326th most popular mathematician (up from 354th in 2019), the 2,296th most popular biography from France (up from 2,578th in 2019) and the 54th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Maurice René Fréchet ranks 326 out of 1,004. Before him are Igor Shafarevich, Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, August Leopold Crelle, Shiing-Shen Chern, Stephen Smale, and Bartel Leendert van der Waerden. After him are Alain Connes, Johann Friedrich Pfaff, Enrico Bombieri, René-Louis Baire, Guidobaldo del Monte, and Sergei Sobolev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Maurice René Fréchet ranks 69. Before him are C. Rajagopalachari, Paul Troost, Stephen Timoshenko, Walter Heitz, Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkadir, and Horacio Quiroga. After him are José Miaja, Alexander Tamanian, Kurt Goldstein, Wander Johannes de Haas, Erich Mühsam, and Mikhail Artsybashev. Among people deceased in 1973, Maurice René Fréchet ranks 93. Before him are Nikos Zachariadis, Hans Globke, P. Ramlee, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Roger Williamson, and Lorenzo Fernández. After him are Jarno Saarinen, Clas Thunberg, Marthe Bibesco, Merian C. Cooper, Fuad Chehab, and Helen Parkhurst.

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In France

Among people born in France, Maurice René Fréchet ranks 2,296 out of 6,770. Before him are Pierre Henry (1927), Claire Denis (1946), Jean Paulhan (1884), Catherine Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues (1579), Éleuthère Irénée du Pont (1771), and Charles de Lannoy, 1st Prince of Sulmona (1487). After him are Alain Robert (1962), Jean Metzinger (1883), Jacques de Morgan (1857), Guillaume-Antoine Olivier (1756), Julien Benda (1867), and Pierre de Castelnau (1170).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Maurice René Fréchet ranks 54. Before him are Gilles de Roberval (1602), Joseph Bertrand (1822), Émile Picard (1856), Édouard Roche (1820), Charles-Eugène Delaunay (1816), and Oronce Finé (1494). After him are Alain Connes (1947), René-Louis Baire (1874), Guillaume Postel (1510), Jean Dieudonné (1906), Antoine Gombaud (1607), and Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde (1735).

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