Jean Favard (28 August 190221 January 1965) was a French mathematician who worked on analysis.

Favard was born in Peyrat-la-Nonière. During World War II he was a prisoner of war in Germany.

He also was a President of the French Mathematical Society in 1946. He died in La Tronche, aged 62.

See also

• Favard measure

• Favard inequality

• Favard interpolation

• Favard problem

External links

• COMITE DES AMIS DE JEAN-FAVARD

• The Lycée Jean Favard is named after him.

• Here Favard is mentioned as a prisoner of war.