Marie Charpentier

Marie Charpentier
Charpentier in 1932
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Poitiers
Thesis	On the Peano points of a first-order differential equation (1931)
Doctoral advisor	Paul Montel
Academic work
Discipline	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Rennes

Marie Charpentier (1903–1994)^[1][2] was the first woman to obtain a doctorate in pure mathematics in France,^[1] and the second woman, after Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin, to obtain a faculty position in mathematics at a university in France.^[3]

Education[]

Charpentier joined the Société mathématique de France in 1930, possibly their second female member after Édmée Chandon.^[1] She was a student of Georges Bouligand at the University of Poitiers,^[3] where she completed her thesis in 1931^[1][3] with Paul Montel as chair. Her dissertation was Sur les points de Peano d'une equation différentielle du premier order [On the Peano points of a first-order differential equation].^[1]

Career[]

She did postdoctoral studies with George Birkhoff at Harvard University,^[1] and was an invited speaker on geometry at the 1932 International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich.^[4] However, she could not obtain a faculty position in France at that time, and instead had to support herself as a teacher at the high school level.^[1]

She was appointed to her faculty position in 1942,^[3] at the University of Rennes,^[1][2] became full professor there, and retired in 1973.^[1]

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