André Revuz
André Revuz (born March 15, 1914 in Paris , † October 27, 2008 in Créteil ) was a French mathematician.
André Revuz studied from 1934 at the École normal supérieure and in 1937 acquired the Agrégation in mathematics. He received his doctorate in 1954 under Gustave Choquet (Fonctions croissantes et mesures sur les espaces topologiques ordonnés). From 1945 to 1950 he taught in Istanbul , was Maitre de conférences in Bordeaux in 1955/56 , in Poitiers in 1956/57 and professor at the Sorbonne from 1967 to 1982 and, after the Paris universities were divided, at the University of Paris VII (Denis Diderot). There he was founding director of the Institut de recherche sur l'enseignement des mathématiques (IREM). He also taught from 1954 to 1967 at the École normal supérieure de jeunes filles in Sèvre.
In 1966 he was president of the Société mathématique de France . In the same year he became a member of the Lichnerowicz Commission to reform mathematics teaching in France.
His wife Germaine Revuz (1915–2003) was also a mathematics professor, as was their son Daniel Revuz (* 1936).
Michèle Vergne and Arnaud Beauville are among his former students .
Fonts
- with Germaine Revuz: Le cours de l'APM I-Groupes, anneaux, corps 1962
- with Germaine Revuz: Le cours de l'APM II-Espaces vectoriels, 1963
- with Germaine Revuz: Le cours de l'APM III-Éléments de topologie, 1966
- Mathématique moderne mathématique vivante, Paris: OCDL 1963
- Editor with Georges-Théodule Guilbaud: Chantiers mathématiques, Institut Pédagogique National, Paris 1965, (text accompanying the television course)
- with Yvette Amice , Édouard Dehame, Michel Paix, Michel Laudet, André Lichnerowicz , Germaine Revuz: Mathématiques supérieures pour l'homme moderne, 6 volumes, Dunod 1973
- Est-il impossible d'enseigner les mathématiques?, PUF 1980
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Revuz, André |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 27, 2008 |
| Place of death | Créteil |