To my knowledge, he was also the first French mathematician to cross over
to Germany (Hamburg in his case) as a Rockefeller Foundation fellow. His
file can be found at the RF archive in Tarrytown New York.
Liliane Beaulieu
P.S. My apologies for being a bit of a stickler here, but the history of
math is complicated not to get further confusion in identities as the result
of (most likely unintentional) spelling mistakes. Or perhaps there is one
Jacques Favart whom some of us have mistakenly confused with Jean Favard ?
LB
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> De : Julio Gonzalez Cabillon <jgc@adinet.com.uy>
> A : Walter Felscher <walter.felscher@uni-tuebingen.de>
> Objet : Re: [HM] J. Favart
> Date : Jeud 13 mai 1999 18:24
>
>
>> 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
>