Franck Barthe
Franck Barthe is a French mathematician.
Barthe received his PhD in 1997 from the University of Marne-La-Vallée with Alain Pajor and Bernard Maurey . He is professor at the Laboratory of Statistics and Probability Theory at the University of Toulouse .
In 2004 he received the EMS Prize (lecture: Isoperimetric inequalities , Probability Measures and Convex Geometry ). In the laudation his leading role in the application of mass-theoretical transport techniques (according to Leonid Kantorowitsch , Yann Brenier, Luis Caffarelli and others) to geometric inequalities in harmonic analysis and functional analysis is emphasized with applications in the geometry of convex bodies. He also developed a functional form of isoperimetric inequalities.
In 2004, together with Keith M. Ball , Shiri Artstein and Assaf Naor , he solved Shannon's problem of the monotonous increase in entropy of sums of random variables.
In 2006 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid ( The Brunn-Minkowski theorem and related geometric and functional inequalities ).
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| SURNAME | Barthe, Franck |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |