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{{Short description|Belgian mathematician (1936–2008)}}
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'''Nicole Leonie Jean Marie De Grande-De Kimpe'''{{r|mg}} (7 September 1936 – 23 July 2008) was a Belgian mathematician known as a pioneer of [[p-adic analysis|{{mvar|p}}-adic functional analysis]], and particularly for her work on [[locally convex topological vector space]]s over [[field (mathematics)|fields]] with [[Ultrametric space|non-Archimedean]] [[Valuation (algebra)|valuations]].{{r|remembering}}
==Early life and education==
De Grande-De Kimpe was born on 7 September 1936 in [[Antwerp]], the only child of a dockworker living in [[Hoboken, Antwerp]], where she grew up, went to high school, and learned to play the violin. She studied mathematics on a scholarship to [[Ghent University]], finished her degree with a specialty in [[mathematical analysis]] there in 1958, and took a job as a high school mathematics teacher.{{r|remembering}}
In 1963, she began a research fellowship, funded by the National Center for Algebra and Topology, which she used to study under [[Guy Hirsch]] at the [[Free University of Brussels (1834–1969)|Free University of Brussels]]. Following that, from 1965 to 1970 she worked as a graduate assistant in analysis for Piet Wuyts at the Free University of Brussels. During this time, she married, had a daughter, and divorced.{{r|remembering}} She completed her Ph.D. in 1970, supervised by [[Hans Freudenthal]] at [[Utrecht University]].{{r|mg|remembering}}
==Later life and career==
After a year of postdoctoral research with Freudenthal at Utrecht, De Grande-De Kimpe took a position in 1971 at the [[Vrije Universiteit Brussel]], the Flemish half of the newly-split Free University of Brussels.{{r|remembering}}
There, she and Lucien Van Hamme organized a long-running seminar on <math>p</math>-adic analysis beginning in 1978, and hosted an international conference on the subject in 1986. Recognizing that there was enough critical mass for a more specialized international conference on <math>p</math>-adic functional analysis, De Grande-De Kimpe founded the series of International Conferences on <math>p</math>-adic Functional Analysis, with cofounders Javier Martínez Maurica and José Manuel Bayod, beginning with the first conference in 1990 in Spain. She also served a term as head of the mathematics department at her university.{{r|remembering}}
After retiring to her home in [[Willebroek]] in 2001, she remained mathematically active and continued to teach the [[history of mathematics]]. She died on 23 July 2008.{{r|remembering}}
==Recognition==
In 2002, a [[festschrift]] was published as a special volume of the [[Simon Stevin (journal)|Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society, Simon Stevin]], honoring both De Grande-De Kimpe and Lucien Van Hamme, who retired at the same time.{{r|remembering|festschrift}} The 11th International Conference on <math>p</math>-adic Functional Analysis, held in 2010, was dedicated to the memory of De Grande-De Kimpe.{{r|preface}}
==References==
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<ref name=festschrift>{{citation
| editor-last = Caenepeel | editor-first = Stef
| location = Brussels
| publisher = Belgian Mathematical Society
| series = [[Simon Stevin (journal)|Simon Stevin]]
| title = <math>p</math>-adic Numbers in Number Theory, Analytic Geometry and Functional Analysis: A Collection of Papers in Honour of Nicole De Grande-De Kimpe and Lucien Van Hamme, at the Occasion of Their Retirement
| volume = 9 (suppl.)
| year = 2002}}</ref>
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<ref name=preface>[https://books.google.com/books?id=LPm-AwAAQBAJ&pg=PR9 Preface to ''Advances in non-Archimedean Analysis'' (2011), p. ix]</ref>
<ref name=remembering>{{citation
| last1 = Perez-Garcia | first1 = C.
| last2 = Schikhof | first2 = W. H.
| editor1-last = Araujo-Gomez | editor1-first = Jesus
| editor2-last = Diarra | editor2-first = Bertin
| editor3-last = Alain | editor3-first = Escassut.
| contribution = Remembering Nicole De Grande-De Kimpe 1936–2008
| doi = 10.1090/conm/551/10882
| mr = 2882385
| pages = 1–32
| publisher = American Mathematical Society | location = Providence, Rhode Island
| series = Contemporary Mathematics
| title = Advances in non-Archimedean Analysis: Papers from the 11th International Conference on <math>p</math>-adic Functional Analysis held at the Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, July 5–9, 2010
| volume = 551
| year = 2011}}</ref>
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[[Category:1936 births]]
[[Category:2008 deaths]]
[[Category:Belgian mathematicians]]
[[Category:Belgian women mathematicians]]
[[Category:Ghent University alumni]]
[[Category:Utrecht University alumni]]
[[Category:Academic staff of Vrije Universiteit Brussel]]
[[Category:Academic staff of the Free University of Brussels (1834–1969)]]