Re: [HM] J. Favart

Julio Gonzalez Cabillon (jgc@adinet.com.uy)
Thu, 13 May 1999 19:24:46 -0300

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> 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.
>

Excellent memory, Walter! Jean Favard was, as you assumed, in his mid-fifties
by then, since he was born in 1902. Favard died in 1965. Cf. Mark Zamansky's
homage in _L'Enseignement Mathe/matique_, serie ii, vol 11, pp 101-102, 1965.

Regards, Julio

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