Marie-louise dubreil-jacotin biography sample

◀▲▶History / 20th-century / Person: Dubreil-Jacotin, Marie-Louise

Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin was a French mathematician who worked in fluid mechanics and abstract algebra.

She was the second woman in France to obtain a doctorate in pure mathematics.

Mathematical Profile (Excerpt):

• Marie-Louise took the baccalaureate in elementary mathematics and at this stage encountered a particularly good piece of luck.
• Often one piece of good fortune is balanced by bad fortune and in the case of Marie-Louise's study at the Collège de Chaptal this was exactly what happened.
• But the decree of the ministry published afterwards in the official journal named twenty male students at the top and then Marie-Louise at the head of the Bousiers de licence.
• Paul Dubreil, whom Marie-Louise had met while they both studied at the École Normale Supérieure, had been awarded a Rockefeller scholarship in and at the time of their marriage was