Gustave Dumas

Gustave Dumas (5 March 1872, L'Etivaz, Vaud, Switzerland – 11 July 1955) was a Swiss mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry.

[2] In 1906 he obtained his habilitation qualification from Zürich's Federal Polytechnic School with habilitation dissertation Sur quelques cas d'irréductibilité des polynômes à coefficients rationnels.

From 1906 to 1913 Dumas taught higher mathematics at the Federal Polytechnic School.

At Lausanne he had an important influence on his student Georges de Rham, who became Dumas's assistant before graduating in 1925.

[1] Dumas served a two-year term as president of the Swiss Mathematical Society in 1922–1923.