About Georges Glaeser
Lived 1918 – 2002 (aged 83). Georges Glaeser was a French mathematician and university teacher.
Georges Glaeser (8 November 1918 – 1 September 2002) was a French mathematician who was director of the IREM of Strasbourg. He worked in analysis and mathematical education and introduced Glaeser's composition theorem and Glaeser's continuity theorem. Glaeser was a Ph.D. student of Laurent Schwartz.
On 3 July 1973, Glaeser filed a complaint against Vichy collaborator Paul Touvier in the Lyon Court, charging him with crimes against humanity. Glaeser accused Touvier of the 1944 massacre at Rillieux-la-Pape, in which Glaeser's father was murdered. Touvier was eventually imprisoned for life on this charge in 1994.
Affiliations IAS School of Mathematics (9/1961 – 5/1962)
Education University of Nancy (Class of 1957)
Selected publications
"Etude de quelques algebres tayloriennes" "Racine carrée d'une fonction différentiable", Annales de l'Institut Fourier 13, no. 2 (1963), 203–210 "Une introduction à la didactique expérimentale des mathématiques"
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French mathematician (1918-2002)
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Georges Glaeser was born on 8 November 1918 in Paris.
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Georges Glaeser died on 6 September 2002 in Chantelle.
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Georges Glaeser was a mathematician and university teacher.
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