René Maurice Fréchet
French mathematician
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René Maurice Fréchet was a French mathematician. He made major contributions to general topology and was the first to define metric spaces. He also made several important contributions to the field of statistics and probability, as well as... Wikipedia
Born: September 2, 1878, Maligny, France
Died: June 4, 1973 (age 94 years), Paris, France
Notable students: Đuro Kurepa, Wolfgang Doeblin, António Aniceto Monteiro, and more
Doctoral advisor: Jacques Hadamard
Known for: Metric spaces, Fréchet spaces, Fréchet distribution, Fréchet distance