Albert Châtelet

Albert Châtelet ( born October 24, 1883 in Valhuon, Pas -de- Calais, † June 30, 1960 in Paris) was a French mathematician and politician.

Life

Châtelet studied from 1905 to 1908 at the École Normale Supérieure mathematics and was after his teacher's exam ( Agrégation ) high school teacher in Tours. He received his PhD in 1911 ( Sur certains ensembles de tableaux et leur application à la théorie of nombres ). After that, he was a lecturer in mathematics at École centrale de Lille ( Institut industriel du Nord ), while from 1919 Maître de Conférences for mechanics at the University of Lille, from 1920 professor of mathematics, and finally for Theoretical mechanics ( Mécanique Rationnelle ). 1924 to 1937 he was Rector of the Académie de Lille. After that, he was until 1940 under the minister, Jean Zay responsible for higher education in the French Ministry of Education.

From 1940 he was professor in Paris, from 1945 he went to the Faculté de Science at the University of Paris as professor of number theory. 1949 to 1954 he was a successor to Jean Cabannes director of the Faculté de Science in Paris. In his time the construction of the campus of the University of Paris Jussieu falls in place of the old wine trade halls.

From 1955 to 1960 he was president of the Society Union Rationaliste, which previously counted Paul Langevin and Frédéric Joliot- Curie for their president. In 1958 he came to Charles de Gaulle as presidential candidate of the left, non-Communist Union of Democratic Forces collective movement ( UFD ) that broke up again after the election. He got 8.4 percent of the vote.

As a mathematician, he made known the works of the German school of number theory (for example, Helmut Hasse ) in France. His doctoral counts André Néron.

He was editor of Volume 5 of the works of Henri Poincaré.

A university center in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, and a price of CNRS (Albert Châtelet- medal ) are named after him.

His son François Châtelet was also a mathematician who was also involved in number theory.

• Mathematicians ( 20th century)
• Politicians (France)
• University teachers ( University of Lille I)
• High school teacher ( Ecole Centrale de Lille)
• University teachers ( Sorbonne )
• Frenchman
• Born in 1883
• Died in 1960
• Man