Jacqueline Ferrand
Jacqueline Lelong-Ferrand (17 February 1918, Alès, France – 26 April 2014, Sceaux, France) was a French mathematician who worked on conformal representation theory, potential theory, and Riemannian manifolds. She taught at universities in Caen, Lille, and Paris.[1][2][3]
Education and career
Ferrand was born in Alès, the daughter of a classics teacher, and went to secondary school in Nîmes.[4] In 1936 the
Contributions
Ferrand had nearly 100 mathematical publications, including ten books,[5] and was active in mathematical research into her late 70s.[4] One of her accomplishments, in 1971, was to prove the compactness of the group of conformal mappings of a non-spherical compact Riemannian manifold, resolving a conjecture of André Lichnerowicz, and on the basis of this work she became an invited speaker at the 1974 International Congress of Mathematicians in Vancouver.[4][7]
Personal life
She married mathematician Pierre Lelong in 1947, taking his surname alongside hers in her subsequent publications[5] until their separation in 1977.[4][7]
References
- ^ Curriculum vitae; accessed 5 May 2014.
- ^ Jacqueline Ferrand profile, smf.emath.fr; accessed 5 May 2014 (in French)
- ^ Lelong-Ferrand profile; accessed 5 May 2014. (in French)
- ^ a b c d e f O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Jacqueline Ferrand", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- ^ a b c d Biographies of Women Mathematicians, Agnes Scott College; accessed 5 May 2014.
- ^ Jacqueline Ferrand at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ S2CID 119148294.
Links
- ChronoMath, une chronologie des MATHÉMATIQUES (in French); accessed 5 May 2014
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