René-Louis Baire

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René-Louis Baire (January 21, 1874 – July 5, 1932), was a French mathematician. He was born in Paris, France and died in Chambéry, France.

Dogged by ill health, and spending time alternating between low level teaching in lycées and work in universities, he was only able to make contributions to mathematics in limited spells. He had research interests in continuity and irrational numbers.

[edit] See also

• Baire category theorem
• Baire function
• Baire set
• Baire space
• Baire space (set theory)
• Property of Baire
• normal convergence

[edit] Books by René Baire

• Théorie des nombres irrationnels, des limites et de la continuité ( Vuibert et Nony, Paris, 1905)
• Leçons sur les fonctions discontinues with Arnaud Denjoy (Gauthier-Villars, Paris, 1905)

[edit] External links

• O'Connor, John J. & Robertson, Edmund F., “René-Louis Baire”, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive