Mathematician:Gustave Alfred Arthur Choquet

Mathematician

French mathematician whose contributions include work in functional analysis, potential theory, topology and measure theory.

Creating the Choquet theory, the Choquet integral and the theory of capacities.

Nationality

French

History

• Born: 1 March 1915 in Solesmes, Nord, France
• Died: 14 November 2006 in Lyon, France

Theorems and Definitions

• Choquet Game
• Choquet Integral
• Choquet Theory

• Choquet's Theorem
• Radó-Kneser-Choquet Theorem (with Tibor Radó and Hellmuth Kneser)

Results named for Gustave Alfred Arthur Choquet can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Gustave Alfred Arthur Choquet can be found here.

Publications

• 1966: Topology
• 1969: Lectures on Analysis: Integration and topological vector spaces

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Gustave Alfred Arthur Choquet": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive