Marie-Joseph Kampé de Fériet (
Paris
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, 14 May 1893 –
Villeneuve d'Ascq
Villeneuve-d'Ascq (; pcd, Neuvile-Ask) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. With more than 60,000 inhabitants and 50,000 students, it is one of the main cities of the Métropole Européenne de Lille and the largest in area ( ...
, 6 April 1982) was professor at
Université Lille Nord de France
The Community of Universities and Institutions (COMUE) Lille Nord de France (formerly Université Lille Nord de France) was a French Groups of Universities and Institutions ( COMUE) spread over multiple campuses and centered in Lille (North - Hauts ...
from 1919 to 1969. Besides his works on mathematics and fluid mechanics, he directed the ''Institut de mécanique des fluides de Lille'' (
ONERA Lille) and taught fluid dynamics and
information theory at
École centrale de Lille
Located in the campus of Science and Technology (Cité Scientifique) of the University of Lille in Villeneuve-d'Ascq ( European Metropolis of Lille - Hauts-de-France); École Centrale de Lille is a renowned graduate engineering school, with ro ...
from 1930 to 1969.
He devised the
Kampé de Fériet functions, which further generalize the
generalized hypergeometric function
In mathematics, a generalized hypergeometric series is a power series in which the ratio of successive coefficients indexed by ''n'' is a rational function of ''n''. The series, if convergent, defines a generalized hypergeometric function, which ...
s.
He was an Invited Speaker of the
ICM in 1928 at Bologna,
in 1932 at Zurich, and in 1954 at Amsterdam.
Works
* J. Kampé de Fériet &
P.E. Appell ''Fonctions hypergéometriques et hypersphériques'' (Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1926)
* J. Kampé de Fériet ''La fonction hypergéometrique'' (Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1937)
References
External links
Biography at ONERA from Joseph Kampé de Fériet
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1893 births
1982 deaths
Lille University of Science and Technology faculty
French mathematicians