André Martineau (born 14 May 1930 – 4 May 1972) was a French mathematician, specializing in mathematical analysis. Martineau studied at the

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and received there, with

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as supervisor, his Ph.D. with a thesis on analytic functionals and then worked for several years with Schwartz. Martineau became a professor at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis. Shortly before his 42nd birthday, he died of cancer. His research deals with analysis in several complex variables, where he introduced Fourier-Borel transformations for analytic functionals. (For one complex variable this type of functional transformation was introduced by

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.) Martineau was one of the early advocates of the theory of Sato's

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s and gave lectures on this topic in Seminar Bourbaki during 1960–1961. According to Pierre Cartier, Martineau played a role in the development of the concept of schemes in algebraic geometry by means of a remark made to

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. Consider a quotation from the year 2004: Martineau was an Invited Speaker at the

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in 1962 in Stockholm with talk ''Croissance d'une fonction entiers de type exponentiel et supports des fonctionelles analytiques'' and in 1970 in

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with talk ''Fonctionelles analytiques''. His doctoral students include Henri Skoda. His son Jacques Martineau (born 1963) is a movie director and screenwriter.

Selected publications

* Oeuvre, Editions du CNRS 1977, 878 pages
Martineau ''Sur la topologie des espaces de fonctions holomorphes'', Mathematische Annalen, vol. 163, 1966, p. 62

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Martineau, Andre 1930 births 1972 deaths 20th-century French mathematicians Academic staff of Côte d'Azur University École Normale Supérieure alumni Nicolas Bourbaki

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