René Gâteaux

René Eugène Gâteaux ( born May 5, 1889 in Vitry -le- François, † October 3, 1914 in Rouvroy ( Pas -de- Calais ) near Lens ( Pas -de- Calais ) ) was a French mathematician.

Life

Gateaux was a student of Jacques Hadamard. From 1907 he studied at the Ecole Normale Superieure and put 1910 Agrégation in mathematics from. After his military service he was a high school teacher in 1912 in Bar- le- Duc. 1913-1914 he was for his doctoral studies with a scholarship in Rome by Vito Volterra, where he published several notes in the Rendicondi the Accademia dei Lincei. He was drafted in 1914 as a reserve lieutenant of infantry and even fell during the early months of the First World War.

He is primarily known for the Gâteaux derivative. A part of his work was first published posthumously by Paul Lévy.

In 1916, he posthumously received the Prix Francoeur of the French Academy at the instigation of Jacques Hadamard.