Institute Henri Poincaré
The Institut Henri Poincaré (IHP) is a central French institute for mathematics and theoretical physics in Paris . It is affiliated with the University of Paris VI as an internal school. The registered office is at 11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris.
The institute houses a library with around 35,000 books and 255 magazines and seminar rooms in 2009. It is also the seat of various French mathematical and physical societies such as the Société Mathématique de France (SMF), the French Physical Society (SFP), the French Statistical Society (SFdS), the Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris (FSMP) and the French Society for Applied and Industrial Mathematics (SMAI). The IHP regularly organizes workshops, seminars and conferences. Mainly three trimesters on special topics are organized each year under the umbrella of the Center Émile Borel (CEB). The well-known Bourbaki Seminars take place at the IHP and the award winners of the French Academy of Sciences hold their award lectures here.
The institute publishes the journal Annales de l´Institut Henri Poincaré (AIHP) in three series: A (Theoretical and Mathematical Physics), B (Probability and Statistics), C (Nonlinear Analysis). In 1964 the first split into A, B followed in 1983 by C. The A series is published in cooperation with Acta Physica Helvetica by Birkhäuser Verlag, after the two journals merged in 2000, since then it has been called Annales Henri Poincaré.
The institute was founded in 1928 with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation and named after Henri Poincaré . Driving forces were the leading French mathematicians Émile Borel (the founding director of the IHP), Jacques Hadamard and Émile Picard, and the American mathematician George David Birkhoff , who worked in the field of dynamic systems , which was revolutionized by Poincaré. One of the motives for the establishment was a need to catch up, especially in theoretical physics in France compared to other countries, and the desire for better international networking. In addition to theoretical physics, probability theory , which Borel cultivated, also played a major role in the early days.
With the reorganization of the University of Paris in the 1970s, the seat of the IHP was mainly used by non-specialist organizations. Initiatives of various French mathematicians and physicists such as Jean-Pierre Aubin , Bernard Teissier and Bernard Julia ( Demazure Report ) in the 1980s led to the re-establishment in 1990 with affiliation to the University of Paris VI and simultaneous use by the CNRS .
The current director (2009) is Cédric Villani .
literature
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European Mathematical Society Newsletter. September 2009 ( PDF; 3.949 MB ); in this:
- Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze : The first decade of the Institut Henri Poincaré, in particular the role of the Rockefeller Foundation. Pp. 35-37
- Alain Comtet & Cédric Villani: Institut Henri Poincaré. Pp. 37-39
- Some of the AIHP are online here .
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Footnotes
- ↑ This also includes the library of the Faculté de Science in Paris and a collection of mathematical models, some of which still come from the publishing house Martin Schilling in Leipzig and from the professor of descriptive geometry Caron from the beginning of the 20th century.
- ↑ Both theoretical physics and probability theory have also been Poincaré's most recent areas of interest and research.
- ↑ Maurice Fréchet and his students, less the dominant personality in French probability theory of the 1930s, Paul Lévy from the École Polytechnique, who also gave lectures at the IHP.