Marie Charpentier

Marie Charpentier (1903–1994)[1][2] 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.[3]

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,[3] where she completed her thesis in 1931[1][3] with Paul Montel as chair. Her dissertation was Sur les points de Peano d'une equation différentielle du premier order [On the Peano points of a first-order differential equation].[1]

She 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.[4] 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,[3] at the University of Rennes,[1][2] became full professor there, and retired in 1973.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 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 .
  2. 1 2 Escofier, Jean-Pierre (2016), Petite histoire des mathématiques (in French), Dunod, p. 194, ISBN 9782100747702
  3. 1 2 3 4 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
  4. ↑ ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897, International Mathematical Union, retrieved 2017-11-20
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