Vessoit

Ernest Vessoit

Born: 8 March 1865 in Marseilles, France
Died: 17 Oct 1952 in La Bauche, Savoie, France

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Vessoit studied in the same class as Hadamard. He applied continuous groups to the study of differential equations. He extended results of Cartan and also extended Fredholm integrals to partial differential equations.

Vessoit was assigned to ballistics during World War I and made important discoveries.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. É Cartan, L'oeuvre scientifique de M Ernest Vessoit, Bulletin de la Société mathématique de France 75 (1947), 1-8. 
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