Marie-Joseph Kampé de Fériet (14 May 1893 – 6 April 1982) was a French mathematician at
Université Lille Nord de France 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
Information theory is the mathematical study of the quantification (science), quantification, Data storage, storage, and telecommunications, communication of information. The field was established and formalized by Claude Shannon in the 1940s, ...
at
École centrale de Lille 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
Academic staff of the Lille University of Science and Technology
French mathematicians