21537 Fréchet | Discovered 1998 Aug. 15 by P. G. Comba at Prescott. |
Maurice Fréchet (1878-1973), a student of Hadamard and graduate of the École Normale Supérieure, was a pioneer in the study of the point set topology of abstract spaces and of functionals defined thereon. He introduced, among others, the concepts of compactness, completeness and separability. |
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