Nationality French Role Mathematician | Name Gustave Choquet | |
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Born 1 March 1915Solesmes, Nord ( 1915-03-01 ) Alma mater Ecole Normale Superieure Doctoral students Haim BrezisGilles GodefroyNassif GhoussoubMichel L. LapidusMichel TalagrandLeon Motchane Known for Choquet theoryChoquet integral Books Lectures on analysis, L'enseignement de la géométrie, What is modern mathematics Similar People Yvonne Choquet‑Bruhat, Jerrold E Marsden, Michel Talagrand, Gilles Godefroy, Haim Brezis | ||
Education Ecole Normale Superieure | ||
Gustave Choquet ([ʃɔkɛ]; 1 March 1915 – 14 November 2006) was a French mathematician.
Choquet was born in Solesmes, Nord. His contributions include work in functional analysis, potential theory, topology and measure theory. He is known for creating the Choquet theory, the Choquet integral and the theory of capacities.
He did postgraduate work at the École Normale Supérieure Paris where his advisor was Arnaud Denjoy. He was Professor at the University of Paris (subsequently Paris VI) from 1940 to 1984 and was also Professor at the École Polytechnique from 1960 to 1969. His honours and awards included being a Member of the Académie des Sciences, and an Officier of the Légion d’Honneur.
His students include Haïm Brezis, Gilles Godefroy, Nassif Ghoussoub, Michel L. Lapidus, and Michel Talagrand.
He was married to mathematician and mathematical physicist Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat. He died in Lyon in 2006.