Mathematician:René-Louis Baire
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Mathematician
French mathematician who worked mainly on the theory of continuity and irrational numbers.
Most famous for the Baire Category Theorem.
Nationality
French
History
- Born: 21 Jan 1874, Paris, France
- Died: 5 July 1932, Chambéry, France
Theorems and Definitions
- Baire Category Theorem
- Baire Characterisation Theorem
- Baire-Osgood Theorem (with William Fogg Osgood)
- Baire Category
- Baire Function
- Baire Measure
- Baire Metric
- Baire Property
- Baire Set
- Baire Space (Set Theory)
- Baire Space (Topology)
Results named for René-Louis Baire can be found here.
Definitions of concepts named for René-Louis Baire can be found here.
Publications
- 1899: Sur les fonctions de variables réelles (On real-variable functions)
- 1905: Théorie des nombres irrationnels, des limites et de la continuité (Theory of irrational numbers, limits and continuity)
- 1905: Leçons sur les fonctions discontinues (Lessons on discontinuous functions) (with Arnaud Denjoy)
- 1907-08: Leçons sur les théories générales de l'analyse (Lessons on general theories of analysis), 2 volumes