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Maurice Fréchet (September 2, 1878 – June 4, 1973) was a French mathematician.
In 1906, he introduced the concept of metric space, and was one of the founders of functional analysis. He also coined the term compact space. He was a student of Jacques Hadamard at École Normale Supérieure.
See also
External link
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "René Maurice Fréchet", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- René Maurice Fréchet at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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