Debever, Robert Gustave (1915-1998)
Mathematician born on 25 November 1915 in Wadebridge in the United Kingdom and died on 11 May 1998 in Sint-Pieters-Woluwe.
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Biography
Robert Debever was born on 25 November 1915 in Wadebridge, United Kingdom. He was professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles.
He was elected correspondent of the The Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium on 10 June 1967[1] and became a member on 31 March 1984. He was President of the Academy and Director of the Science Class in 1987.
He was a member of the Belgian Mathematical Society and was President of this society from 1978 to 1979.
Works
He specialised in the calculation of variations, differential geometry and general relativity. He collaborated with Jules Géhéniau and Paul Libois. They obtained important results on the spaces of electromagnetism.
Debever was passionate about Belgian literature and history and published a work on the correspondence between Albert Einstein and Elie Cartan.[2]
Bibliography
- MAWHIN, Jean, "Les mathématiques", in Robert Halleux, Geert Vanpaemel, Jan Vandersmissen en Andrée Despy-Meyer (red.), Geschiedenis van de wetenschappen in België 1815-2000, Brussel: Dexia, 2001, vol. 2, p. 72.
Notes
- ↑ MAWHIN, Jean, "Les mathématiques", in Robert Halleux, Geert Vanpaemel, Jan Vandersmissen en Andrée Despy-Meyer (red.), Geschiedenis van de wetenschappen in België 1815-2000, Brussel: Dexia, 2001, vol. 2, p. 72.
- ↑ MAWHIN, Jean, "Les mathématiques", in Robert Halleux, Geert Vanpaemel, Jan Vandersmissen en Andrée Despy-Meyer (red.), Geschiedenis van de wetenschappen in België 1815-2000, Brussel: Dexia, 2001, vol. 2, p. 72.
