Jeanne Radegonde Marie Charpentier (30 October 1903 – 9 October 1994)[1][2][3] was a French mathematician. She was the first woman to obtain a doctorate in pure mathematics in France,[1] and the second woman, after Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin, to obtain a faculty position in mathematics at a university in France.[4]
Marie Charpentier | |
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 Charpentier in 1932 | |
| Born | Jeanne Radegonde Marie Charpentier 30 October 1903 Poitiers, France |
| Died | October 9, 1994 (aged 90) Poitiers, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Poitiers |
| Thesis | On the Peano points of a first-order differential equation (1931) |
| Doctoral advisor | Paul Montel |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Rennes |
Charpentier was born in Poitiers, the daughter of Michel Marie Eugène Charpentier and Marie Thérèse Geneviève Rondelet, on either 29[5] or 30 October 1903.[6]
Education edit
Charpentier joined the Société mathématique de France in 1930, possibly their second female member after Édmée Chandon.[1] She was a student of Georges Bouligand at the University of Poitiers,[4] where she completed her thesis in 1931[1][4] with Paul Montel as chair. Her dissertation was Sur les points de Peano d'une equation différentielle du premier ordre [On the Peano points of a first-order differential equation].[1]
Career edit
Charpentier did postdoctoral studies with George Birkhoff at Harvard University,[1] and was an invited speaker on geometry at the 1932 International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich.[7] However, she could not obtain a faculty position in France at that time, and instead had to support herself as a teacher at the high school level.[1]
She was appointed to her faculty position in 1942,[4] at the University of Rennes,[1][2] became full professor there, and retired in 1973.[1]
References edit
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Kosmann-Schwarzbach, Yvette (2015), "Women mathematicians in France in the mid-twentieth century", BSHM Bulletin: Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics, arXiv:1502.07597, doi:10.1080/17498430.2014.976804.
- ^ a b Escofier, Jean-Pierre (2016), Petite histoire des mathématiques (in French), Dunod, p. 194, ISBN 9782100747702
- ^ "CHARPENTIER Jeanne Radegonde Marie". Match ID Fichier des décès. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
- ^ a b c d Le Feuvre, Nicky; Membrado, Monique; Rieu, Annie (1999), Les femmes et l'Université en Méditerranée, Féminin & masculin (in French), Presses Univ. du Mirail, p. 53, ISBN 9782858164493
- ^ France, Death Records, 1970–2018
- ^ Vienne, France, Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1540–1906
- ^ ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897, International Mathematical Union, retrieved 2017-11-20