Biography:Michel Plancherel
Michel Plancherel (16 January 1885, Bussy, Fribourg – 4 March 1967, Zurich) was a Switzerland mathematician. He was born in Bussy (Fribourg, Switzerland ) and obtained his Diplom in mathematics from the University of Fribourg and then his doctoral degree in 1907 with a thesis written under the supervision of Mathias Lerch. Plancherel was a professor in Fribourg (1911), and from 1920 at ETH Zurich.
He worked in the areas of mathematical analysis, mathematical physics and algebra, and is known for the Plancherel theorem[1] in harmonic analysis. He was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1924 at Toronto[2] and in 1928 at Bologna.
He was married to Cécile Tercier, had nine children, and presided at the Mission Catholique Française in Zürich.
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References
- ↑ Plancherel, Michel (1910) "Contribution a l'etude de la representation d'une fonction arbitraire par les integrales définies," Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo, vol. 30, pages 289-335.
- ↑ Plancherel, Michel (1924) " Sur les séries de fonctions orthogonales." In Proceedings of the International Mathematical Congress, Toronto, vol. 1, pp. 619–622.
External links
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Michel Plancherel", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Plancherel.html.
- (in French) Short biography, Department of mathematics, University of Fribourg
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