Jean Leray
Leray, Jean
Born Nov. 7, 1906, in Chanteney. French mathematician. Member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1953).
Leray studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieur. In 1947 he became a professor at the College de France. His principal works are on functional analysis (Leray-Schauder fixed-point method), algebraic topology, and hyperbolic partial differential equations. Leray is a foreign member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1966).
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In Russian translation:Differentsial’noe i integral’noe ischislenie na kompleksnom analiticheskom mnogoobrazie. Moscow, 1961.