Paul Montel

Paul Antoine Aristide Montel ( born April 29, 1876 in Nice, † January 22, 1975 in Paris) was a French mathematician.

Montel was the son of a photographer and attended high school in Nice. After completing his studies from 1894 to 1897 at the École supérieure normal in Paris, he worked as a secondary school in Poitiers, Nantes and Paris. In 1907 he received his doctorate at the urging of friends who recognized his potential, in Paris at the Sorbonne ( with Henri Lebesgue and Émile Borel and Paul Painlevé ), but returned to his teaching profession. In his dissertation Sur les fonctions de suites infinies he introduced his concept of normal families of functions in the theory of functions, which, for example, has found application in the theory of iteration of analytic functions at once ( Gaston Julia in 1918, Pierre Fatou ). In 1911, he was then but first lecturer at the " Faculté des Sciences " and then from 1918 as a professor. During the German occupation of France, he was Dean of the Faculty. Among his students were among others Jean Dieudonné and Henri Cartan.

In 1937 he was elected to the French Academy of Sciences. He was also a Grand Officer of the French Legion of Honour.