Ivar Ekeland
Ivar Ekeland (born July 2, 1944 in Paris ) is a French mathematician of Norwegian descent.
Ekeland studied from 1963 to 1967 at the École normal supérieure , then was a research assistant at the CNRS and received his doctorate in 1970 with Pallu de la Barrière. From 1970 to 2003 he was a professor at the University of Paris-Dauphine and at the same time taught at the École polytechnique from 1970 to 1982 . From 1989 to 1994 he was President of the University of Paris-Dauphine and from 1975 to 1989 head of its Research Center for Mathematics (CEREMADE). Since 2003 he has been Professor at the University of British Columbia and Director of the Pacific Institute of Mathematical Sciences (PIMS). He has also been director of the Dauphine Finance Institute since 1995. He was visiting professor at the University of Chicago , the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University , the ICTP (International Center for Theoretical Physics) in Trieste , the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and the University of Texas at Austin .
From 1975 to 1981 he was Vice President of the Société Mathématique de France . From 1991 to 1994 he was Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Ecole Normale Superieure and from 1991 to 1996 Chairman of the National Council of Technical Universities in France (IUP). In 1978 he was invited speaker at the ICM in Helsinki (Problèmes variationnels non convexe). In 1983 he received the Langevin Prize of the French Academy of Sciences and in 1996 he was awarded the Grand Prize of the Belgian Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the Norwegian and Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society of Canada . He is also an honorary doctor from the University of Economics and Finance Saint Petersburg , the University of British Columbia and the University of Vienna .
His scientific work deals with dynamic systems, calculus of variations, optimization problems and mathematical economics.
Ivar Ekeland has received a number of awards for his popular science works, including the Jean Rostand and d 'Alembert prizes.
Publications
- Théorie des jeux et introduction à l'économie mathématique, Presses Universitaires de France
- with Roger Temam : Analyze convexe et probèmes variationnels, Dunod-Gauthier-Villars, 1974, English translation: Convex Analysis and Variational Problems, Elsevier 1976
- Elements d'économie mathématique, Paris, Hermann 1979, ISBN 270565853X
- with T. Turnbull: Infinite-dimensional optimization and convexity, Chicago University Press 1983
- with JP Aubin: Applied nonlinear analysis, Wiley 1984
- The predictable and the unpredictable, Munich, Harnack 1985 (French original: Le calcul, l'imprévu. Les figures du temps de Képler à Thom, 1984, ISBN 2020095572 )
- Convexity methods in Hamiltonian mechanics, Springer 1990
- Chance, luck and chaos - mathematical expeditions, Hanser 1993 (French original: Au hasard. La chance, la science et le monde, 1991, ISBN 2020400642 )
- Chaos, Lübbe 1999, (French original: Le chaos, Flammarion, collection Dominos, 1995, ISBN 2080351729 )
- Le meilleur des mondes possibles, 2000, ISBN 2020283263
Web links
- Literature by and about Ivar Ekeland in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Ekeland, Ivar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 2, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |