Marie Charpentier
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Born
30 October 1903
Jeanne Radegonde Marie Charpentier
30 October 1903
Poitiers, France
DiedOctober 9, 1994 (aged 90)
Poitiers, France
ThesisOn the Peano points of a first-order differential equation (1931)
Marie Charpentier | |
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 Charpentier in 1932 | |
| Born | Jeanne Radegonde Marie Charpentier 30 October 1903 Poitiers, France |
| Died | October 9, 1994 (aged 90) Poitiers, France |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Poitiers |
| Thesis | On the Peano points of a first-order differential equation (1931) |
| Doctoral advisor | Paul Montel |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Rennes |
Jeanne Radegonde Marie Charpentier (30 October 1903 – 9 October 1994)[1][2][3] was a French mathematician. She 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.[4]
Charpentier was born in Poitiers, the daughter of Michel Marie Eugène Charpentier and Marie Thérèse Geneviève Rondelet, on either 29[5] or 30 October 1903.[6]
