17 Facts About Jacques Feldbau

Jacques Feldbau was a French mathematician, born on 22 October 1914 in Strasbourg, of an Alsatian Jewish traditionalist family.

Jacques Feldbau died on 22 April 1945 at the Ganacker Camp, annex of the concentration camp of Flossenburg in Germany.

Jacques Feldbau is known as one of the founders of the theory of fiber bundles.

Jacques Feldbau is the one who first proved that a fiber bundle over a simplex is trivializable and who used this to classify bundles over spheres.

Jacques Feldbau studied at the Lycee Fustel de Coulanges in Strasbourg, receiving his high school diploma in 1932, and then he started preparatory classes at Lycee Kleber.

Jacques Feldbau applied for the Ecole normale superieure but refused to present himself on Saturday, and so was not allowed to continue.

Jacques Feldbau enrolled at the University of Strasbourg in 1934, where he was librarian of the Institute of Mathematics in 1935.

Jacques Feldbau joined the CNRS and began preparing a PhD under the direction of Charles Ehresmann in 1939.

Jacques Feldbau then went to Clermont-Ferrand, where the University of Strasbourg had been evacuated to, where he met his supervisor, Charles Ehresmann.

Jacques Feldbau subsequently published two short notes in the Bulletin de la Societe Mathematique de France under the pseudonym "Jacques Laboureur" or "Jacques Ploughman".

Closer to the war, a very gifted student, Jacques Feldbau, asked me to suggest a topic in topology.

Jacques Feldbau was transferred to Drancy and then deported to Auschwitz, by train No 60 of 7 October 1943, where he arrived on 10 October.

Jacques Feldbau's mastery of several languages was a great help to him.

Jacques Feldbau would have held seminars in mathematics on Sunday afternoon and a conference on quantum theory.

Jacques Feldbau died of exhaustion in camp Ganacker, in Bavaria, two weeks before the end of the war.

Jacques Feldbau's remains were repatriated in 1957 by his sister, and he was reinterred in Cronenbourg.

Jacques Feldbau's difficult working conditions and his tragic fate have overshadowed his contributions to mathematics, but his contributions are recognized by recent work on the history of the topology.