looking for Fréchet's 1906 Ph.D. dissertation introducing metric spaces
- From: Dan <dgreenhoe@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:49:55 -0700
Does anyone know of any online archives where I can find Maurice
Fréchet's 1906 Ph.D. dissertation
"Sur quelques points du calcul fonctionnel" ? It is supposed to be the
first paper to introduce the concept of a metric space (even though
the term "metric space" itself is due to Hausdorff).
I think that Fréchet's 1906 dissertation may have been published in
the same year in the journal "Rendiconti del Circolo Mathematico di
Palermo", volume 22, pages 1-74. Does anyone know where I could find
this version of Fréchet's work?
I have asked basically this same question about 3 weeks ago in another
post. I hope I don't annoy anyone by asking the same question twice.
Many thanks in advance,
Dan Greenhoe
"It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics,
one should study the masters and not the pupils."
--- Niels Henrik Abel
as quoted by Simmons in "Calculus Gems..."
http://www.worldcat.org/isbn/0070575665
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0070575665
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