Fokko du Cloux
Fokko du Cloux (born December 20, 1954 in Rheden , Netherlands ; † November 10, 2006 ) was a Dutch mathematician who dealt with computational aspects in the representation theory of Lie groups.
Life
Du Cloux attended a French lyceum in Spain and studied at the École polytechnique , graduating in 1978. He received his doctorate in 1980 under Alain Guichardet at the University of Paris XI (Sur les n-extensions des représentations induites des produits semi-directs) (with a doctorate d´Etat in the old two-stage French doctoral system 1984), was from 1985 to 1991 Chargé de Recherche of the CNRS at the Ecole Polytechnique and then researched and taught at the University of Lyon I, where he was professor from 1991.
He developed programs to compute the representations of Lie groups, for example Coxeter groups and Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials (Coxeter program, programmed in C ++ ). He also worked on the Atlas of Lie Groups and Representations for the determination of the irreducible unitary representations of reducible real groups (Atlas program). A highlight of their efforts was the determination of the characters of the exceptional Lie group E8 ( David Vogan , Marc van Leeuwen and Jeffrey Adams , among others ).
He died of ALS , which he was diagnosed with in November 2005. But he was still active in the Atlas project until his death.
In 1984 he became a member of the American Mathematical Society .
Web links
References and comments
- ^ In Memory of, 2006/07, American Mathematical Society
- ↑ Fokko du Cloux in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- ^ Atlas of Lie groups and representations
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cloux, you Fokko |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 20, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rheden |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 10, 2006 |