Jean Favard (28 August 190221 January 1965) was a French mathematician who worked on analysis.
Favard was born in
Peyrat-la-Nonière
Peyrat-la-Nonière (; oc, Peirat la Noniera) is a commune in the Creuse department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in central France.
Geography
An area of farming and forestry, lakes and streams comprising the village and several hamlets situa ...
. During
World War II he was a prisoner of war in Germany.
He also was a President of the
French Mathematical Society in 1946. He died in
La Tronche, aged 62.
See also
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Favard measure (se
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Bohr–Favard inequality The Bohr–Favard inequality is an inequality appearing in a problem of Harald Bohr
on the boundedness over the entire real axis of the integral of an almost-periodic function. The ultimate form of this inequality was given by Jean Favard;
the la ...
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Favard inequality (se
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Favard constant In mathematics, the Favard constant, also called the Akhiezer–Krein–Favard constant, of order ''r'' is defined as
:K_r = \frac \sum\limits_^ \left \frac \right.
This constant is named after the French mathematician Jean Favard, and a ...
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Favard–Akhiezer–Krein theorem In approximation theory, Jackson's inequality is an inequality bounding the value of function's best approximation by algebraic or trigonometric polynomials in terms of the modulus of continuity or modulus of smoothness of the function or of its ...
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Favard interpolation
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Favard theorem
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Favard problem (se
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Favard operators In functional analysis, a branch of mathematics, the Favard operators are defined by:
: mathcal_n(f)x) = \frac \sum_^\infty
where x\in\mathbb, n\in\mathbb. They are named after Jean Favard.
Generalizations
A common generalization is:
: mathcal_ ...
External links
COMITE DES AMIS DE JEAN-FAVARD*Th
Lycée Jean Favardis named after him.
Favard is mentioned as a prisoner of war.
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1902 births
1965 deaths
Mathematical analysts
20th-century French mathematicians