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Michel Plancherel

Michel Plancherel

Swiss mathematician (1885–1967)

Michel Plancherel (16 January 1885 – 4 March 1967) was a Swiss mathematician.

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Biography

He was born in Bussy (Canton of 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.

References

  1. [1]
    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.
  2. [2]
    Plancherel, Michel (1924) " Sur les séries de fonctions orthogonales." Archived 2017-12-03 at the Wayback Machine In Proceedings of the International Mathematical Congress, Toronto, vol. 1, pp. 619–622.
  • O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Michel Plancherel", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
  • Short biography, Department of mathematics, University of Fribourg (in French)


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