Paul Flamant (1892–1940) was a French mathematician, known as the transcriber and editor of Gaston Julia's lectures published in the important monograph Leçons sur les Fonctions Uniformes à Point Singulier Essentiel Isolé (1924). According to Joseph Ritt, "Julia's monograph is probably one of the finest in the Borel collection."[1][2]
Paul Flamant matriculated in 1913 at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) as the highest-rated student, but before graduation went to the front in WW I as a second lieutenant in the French army. He was wounded at Charleroi and taken prisoner.[3] He spent almost four years as a prisoner-of-war, then returned to the ENS and passed his agrégation (and was the highest-rated student for that year of examinations).[4] He received his doctorate from the University of Strasbourg in 1924.[5] He became a mathematics professor at the University of Strasbourg but his health was impaired for the rest of his life. At the beginning of WW II, as a captain in the reserves, he was stationed in the damp, cold bunkers of the Maginot Line. His health deteriorated and he soon died.[4]
He was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1928 in Bologna and in 1936 in Oslo.
Selected publications[]
- "Agrégation des sciences mathématiques (session de 1924)." Nouvelles annales de mathématiques : journal des candidats aux écoles polytechnique et normale, Série 5 : Volume 3 (1924): 342–343.
- "Complément à la note de MH Hildebrandt." Annales de la Société Polonaise de Mathématique T. 5 (1926) (1927).
- "Le développement d’une transmutation linéaire par rapport à la différentiation finie." Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo (1884-1940) Volume 54, no. 1 (1930): 371–413. doi:10.1007/BF03021202
References[]
- ↑ Ritt, J. F. (1925). "Review: Leçons sur les Fonctions Uniformes à Point Singulier Essentiel Isolé, par Gaston Julia, rédigées par P. Flamant". pp. 359–360. Digital object identifier:10.1090/s0002-9904-1925-04056-2. https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1925-31-07/S0002-9904-1925-04056-2/S0002-9904-1925-04056-2.pdf.
- ↑ "Leçons sur les Fonctions Uniformes à Point Singulier Essentiel Isolé". https://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u808780.
- ↑ Audin, Michèle (2011). Fatou, Julia, Montel: The Great Prize of Mathematical Sciences of 1918, and Beyond. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 25. ISBN 9783642178535. https://books.google.com/books?id=Iwho1f_2MbsC&pg=PA25; translated by M. Audin from the French original Fatou, Julia, Montel: le grand prix des sciences mathématiques de 1918, et après (2009), with editing by Ruth Preater & John Preater
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Audin, Michèle (2011). Fatou, Julia, Montel: The Great Prize of Mathematical Sciences of 1918, and Beyond. Springer. p. 121. ISBN 9783642178535. https://books.google.com/books?id=Iwho1f_2MbsC&pg=PA121.
- ↑ "Sur une équation différentielle fonctionnelle linéaire, Thèses de l'entre-deux-guerres, Volume 48 (1924) 80 p.". http://www.numdam.org/item/THESE_1924__48__1_0.
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