Eugène Fabry

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Eugène Fabry
Born(1856-10-16)16 October 1856
Died6 October 1944(1944-10-06) (aged 87)
EducationLycée Thiers
École polytechnique
Known forFabry gap theorem

Charles Eugène Fabry (French: [øʒɛn fabʁi]; 16 October 1856 – 6 October 1944) was a French mathematician. Fabry is best known for studying the singularities of analytic functions, including proving the Fabry gap theorem.[2][3]

Biography[edit]

Eugène Fabry, born in Marseille, was the second of five sons in his family. His brothers included physicist Charles Fabry and astronomer Louis Fabry.[4]

He became professor of analysis at Aix-Marseille University and the University of Montpellier, and a corresponding member of the French Academy of Sciences.[4]

He was the 1930 recipient of the Prix Francoeur of the French Academy of Sciences, "for his work on the singularities of analytical functions".[5]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Louis de Broglie: La vie et l'oeuvre de Charles Fabry, Annuaire pour l'an 1948 publié par le Bureau des longitudes, Page B.5
  2. ^ Fabry, Eugène (1896). "Sur les points singuliers d'une fonction donnée par son développement en série et l'impossibilité du prolongement analytique dans des cas très généraux". Annales scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure, Serie 3. 13: 367–399. doi:10.24033/asens.431.
  3. ^ Pólya, George (1942). "On converse gap theorems". Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 52: 65–71. doi:10.2307/1990153. MR 0006577.
  4. ^ a b Lecomte, Jean; Arnulf, Albert; Vassy, E. (June 1973). "Charles Fabry". Applied Optics. 12 (6): 1117. doi:10.1364/ao.12.001117.
  5. ^ "Prize Awards of the Paris Academy of Sciences". Nature. 127 (3196): 181–182. January 1931. doi:10.1038/127181a0.