Maurice René Fréchet

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Maurice Fréchet (September 2, 1878 – June 4, 1973) was a French mathematician.

In 1906, he introduced the concept of metric space, and was one of the founders of functional analysis. He also coined the term compact space. He was a student of Jacques Hadamard at École Normale Supérieure.


The Fréchet metric is a metric function upon an infinite cartesian product of metric spaces <X1,d1>,<X2,d2>..., defined by: d(x,y)=\sum\frac{1}{2^n}\frac{d_{n}(x_{n},y_{n})}{1+d_{n}(x_{n},y_{n})}

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