Jacques Neveu
Jacques Neveu (born November 14, 1932 - May 17, 2016 ) was a Belgian mathematician who studied stochastics.
Neveu received his doctorate in 1955 at the Sorbonne with Robert Fortet (1912-1998) ( Etude des semi-groupes de Markoff ). In 1962 he was Chargé de Cours at the Collège de France . He taught at the Sorbonne and, after the Paris University was divided, at the University of Paris VI (Pierre et Marie Curie) at the Laboratory for Probability Theory of the Institut Mathématique de Jussieu. He was a professor at the École Polytechnique .
He was visiting professor in Brussels, Sao Paulo and Leuven.
In probability theory, he dealt with Markov processes and Markov chains, Gauss processes , martingales , ergodic theory, potential theory, branching processes, random trees (and related Galton-Watson processes and trees, which he introduced in 1986), point dimensions, and with Applications (computer science, combinatorics, statistical physics) and statistics. He founded the Modélisation Aléatoire et Statistique (MAS) group of the Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles (SMAI). Since 2008, it has been awarding a prize for French doctorates in stochastics which is named after Neveu.
In 1977 he was President of the Société Mathématique de France . He was a fellow of the American Mathematical Society .
His doctoral students include Professors Daniel Revuz , Alain-Sol Sznitman , François Ledrappier , Nicole El Karoui , Pierre Priouret , Jean Jacod and Robert Azencott . He was significantly involved in establishing a research focus on probability theory in Paris in the post-war period (in collaboration with Paul-André Meyer, who worked in Strasbourg ).
Fonts
- Théorie des semi-groups de Markov, University of California Press 1958 (and Gauthier-Villars 1958)
- Bases mathématiques du calcul des probabilités, Masson 1964, 1970
- English translation: Mathematical foundations of the calculus of probability, Holden-Day 1965
- Processus aléatoires gaussiens, Montréal: Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 1968
- Martingales à temps discret, Masson 1972
- Cours de probabilités, École Polytechnique, 1970, 1978
- Introduction aux processus aléatoires, École Polytechnique 1985
- Arbres et processus de Galton-Watson, Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré, Series B, Volume 22, 1986, pp. 199-207
Web links
- Information on Jacques Neveu in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
- Francis Comtet, obituary at the SMF, pdf , also as: Obituary at the CNRS
- idref
- Meeting in his honor, Paris 2017
Individual evidence
- ^ Disparition de Jacques Neveu, UPMC
- ↑ Jacques Neveu in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- ↑ Neveu price at the SMAI
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Neveu, Jacques |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 14, 1932 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th May 2016 |