Jean-Benoît Bost

Jean-Benoît Bost (born July 27, 1961 ) is a French mathematician.

Jean-Benoit Bost, Oberwolfach 2005

Bost attended the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and finished first in the national competition for places in elite schools ( Concours général ) in 1977. From 1979, Bost studied at the École normal supérieure (ENS) in Paris , where he was Agrégé- preparateur (teacher) from 1984 to 1988 . From 1988 he was Chargé de Recherche and from 1993 Research Director of the CNRS . From 1993 to 2006 he was Maître de conférences at the École polytechnique . He has been a professor at the Paris-South University (Paris XI) in Orsay since 1998 .

Bost deals with non-commutative geometry (partly in collaboration with Alain Connes ) with applications to quantum field theory , algebraic and arithmetic geometry. The Bost conjecture is named after him .

In 1990 he received the Prix Peccot-Vimont des Collège de France . In 2002 he received the Prix Élie Cartan of the Academie des Sciences. Since 2005 he has been a member of the Institut Universitaire de France . In 2006 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid ( Evaluation maps, slopes and algebraicity criteria ). He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society . In 2016 he was elected a member of the Academia Europaea .

Vincent Lafforgue is one of his PhD students .

Fonts

Editor with François Loeser , Michel Raynaud : Courbes semi-stables et groupe fondamental en géométrie algébrique (Luminy, December 1998), Birkhäuser 2000
Introduction to compact Riemann Surfaces, Jacobeans and Abelian Varieties. In: Michel Waldschmidt , Claude Itzykson , Jean-Marc Luck, Pierre Moussa (editor): Number Theory and Physics. Les Houches 1989, Springer 1992

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SURNAME	Bost, Jean-Benoît
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	July 27, 1961