Abbas Bahri

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Abbas Bahri (born January 1, 1955 in Tunisia ; † January 10, 2016 ) was a Tunisian mathematician .

Life

Bahri went to school in Tunisia, attended ENS Rue d'Ulm and received his doctorate in 1981 under Haïm Brezis at the University of Paris VI . He then went to the University of Chicago , then became a professor at the University of Tunis and taught at the École polytechnique . Most recently he was a professor at Rutgers University , where he was director of the Center for Nonlinear Analysis until 2010.

He dealt with the calculus of variations , partial differential equations and differential geometry .

In 1988 he became a research fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ( Sloan Research Fellow ). In 1989 he received the first Fermat Prize for the introduction of new methods in the calculus of variations .

Fonts

  • Flow lines and algebraic invariants in contact form geometry. Birkhäuser 2003
  • with Yongzhong Xu: Recent progress in conformal geometry. Imperial College Press 2007
  • Pseudo-orbits of contact forms. Longman 1988

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Message on the death of the mathematician Abbas Bahri (French) ( Memento from January 10, 2016 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. Short biography in Annales de la faculté des sciences de Toulouse 1990
  3. ^ University of Toulouse on the Fermat Prize with laudation, pdf