Paul Flamant

Paul Flamant (1892–1940) was a French mathematician, known as the transcriber and editor of Gaston Julia's lectures published in the important monograph Leçons sur les Fonctions Uniformes à Point Singulier Essentiel Isolé (1924). According to Joseph Ritt, "Julia's monograph is probably one of the finest in the Borel collection."[1][2]

Paul Flamant matriculated in 1913 at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) as the highest-rated student, but before graduation went to the front in WW I as a second lieutenant in the French army. He was wounded at Charleroi and taken prisoner.[3] He spent almost four years as a prisoner-of-war, then returned to the ENS and passed his agrégation (and was the highest-rated student for that year of examinations).[4] He received his doctorate from the University of Strasbourg in 1924.[5] He became a mathematics professor at the University of Strasbourg but his health was impaired for the rest of his life. At the beginning of WW II, as a captain in the reserves, he was stationed in the damp, cold bunkers of the Maginot Line. His health deteriorated and he soon died.[4]

He was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1928 in Bologna and in 1936 in Oslo.

Selected publications

References
  1. Ritt, J. F. (1925). "Review: Leçons sur les Fonctions Uniformes à Point Singulier Essentiel Isolé, par Gaston Julia, rédigées par P. Flamant" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 31 (7): 359–360. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1925-04056-2.
  2. "Leçons sur les Fonctions Uniformes à Point Singulier Essentiel Isolé". Virgo Catalog Search, University of Virginia Library.
  3. Audin, Michèle (2011). Fatou, Julia, Montel: The Great Prize of Mathematical Sciences of 1918, and Beyond. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 25; translated by M. Audin from the French original Fatou, Julia, Montel: le grand prix des sciences mathématiques de 1918, et après (2009), with editing by Ruth Preater & John Preater
  4. Audin, Michèle (2011). Fatou, Julia, Montel: The Great Prize of Mathematical Sciences of 1918, and Beyond. p. 121.
  5. "Sur une équation différentielle fonctionnelle linéaire, Thèses de l'entre-deux-guerres, Volume 48 (1924) 80 p." numdam.org.
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