François Châtelet (11 September 1912 – 19 April 1987, age 75) was a mathematician at the

Université de Besançon The Marie and Louis Pasteur University (UMLP), formerly known as University of Franche-Comté, is a pluridisciplinary public French university located in Besançon, Franche-Comté, with decentralized campuses in Belfort, Montbéliard, Vesoul and ...

who introduced the

Weil–Châtelet group In arithmetic geometry, the Weil–Châtelet group or WC-group of an algebraic group such as an abelian variety ''A'' defined over a field ''K'' is the abelian group of principal homogeneous spaces for ''A'', defined over ''K''. named it for who ...

and

Châtelet surface In algebraic geometry, a Châtelet surface is a rational surface In algebraic geometry, a branch of mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are dev ...

s. His father was the mathematician

Albert Châtelet Albert Châtelet (24 October 1883 – 30 June 1960) was a French politician and mathematician. Biography Châtelet was a student at the École normale supérieure (Paris) from 1905 to 1908, succeeding to the Agrégation (a highly selective comp ...

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* 1987 deaths 1912 births 20th-century French mathematicians Academic staff of the University of Franche-Comté Algebraic geometers {{France-mathematician-stub