Re: [HM] J. Favart

Walter Felscher (walter.felscher@uni-tuebingen.de)
Thu, 13 May 1999 23:15:00 +0200 (MEST)

Jaques Favard was a renowned French geometer, professeur \a la
Facult/e des Sciences de Paris et \a l/Ecole Polytechnique.

His principal work is the Cours de G/eom/etrie Diff/erentielle
Locale which appeared in Julia's Cahiers in Paris 1957 - a most
valuable textbook still today. There is a russian translation by
S.P.Finikov from 1960.

I remember him from a talk he gave in Berlin at the time of this
book's appearance; he seemed to be in his mid-fifties then.

W.F.