Maurice Fréchet (September 2, 1878 – June 4, 1973) was a French mathematician.

In 1906, he introduced the concept of metric space, and was one of the founders of functional analysis. He was a student of Jacques Hadamard at École Normale Supérieure.

See also

• Fréchet space
• Fréchet derivative.

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1878 births | 1973 deaths | 20th century mathematicians | French mathematicians | Mathematical analysts | Alumni of the École Normale Supérieure | Esperantists

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