Mathematician:Georges de Rham

Mathematician

Swiss mathematician known for his contributions to differential topology.

Nationality

Swiss

History

• Born: 10 September 1903 in Roche, Vaud, Switzerland
• Died: 9 October 1990 in Lausanne, Switzerland

Theorems and Definitions

• De Rham's Theorem

• de Rham Cohomology
• de Rham Complex
• de Rham Curve
• de Rham Differential
• de Rham Invariant

Results named for Georges de Rham can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Georges de Rham can be found here.

Publications

• 1931: Sur l'analysis situs des variétés à $n$ dimensions
• 1952: Sur la reductibilité d'un espace de Riemann
• 1984: Differentiable manifolds. Forms, currents, harmonic forms (Translation of 1955 French original ed.) (Translated by F.R. Smith with an introduction by S.S. Chern)

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Georges de Rham": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive