Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène

Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène in Berkeley , 1989

Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène (born December 2, 1947 in Quimper ) is a French mathematician who deals with number theory and arithmetic algebraic geometry.

Colliot-Thélène studied from 1966 to 1970 at the École normal supérieure . In 1968 he received his DEA diploma from Claude Chevalley and Pierre Samuel and in 1969 his Agrégation (teaching examination). 1969/70 (and 1982) he was at the University of Cambridge with Peter Swinnerton-Dyer . In the 1970s he was a researcher at the CNRS . He received his doctorate in 1978 under André Néron at the University of Paris-South (Univ. Paris XI) in Orsay ( Contributions à l'étude des points rationnels de certaines variétés algébriques ). From 1984 he was Director of Research of the CNRS, based in Orsay. In 1990 he was an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley and in 1991 at Harvard University . In 1998 he was at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge and in 2006 he was a Clay Senior Research Fellow at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) at the University of California, Berkeley. He was visiting professor in Moscow , Lausanne , Dortmund and several times at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Bombay .

Colliot-Thélène was mainly concerned with rational points on higher dimensional algebraic varieties. He generalized the theorem of James Ax and Simon Cooking into a conjecture that Jan Denef proved.

In 1980 he received the Albert Châtelet Medal and in 1985 the de Freycinet Prize of the Académie des Sciences . In 1986 he was an invited speaker at the ICM ( Arithmétique des variétés rationnelles et problemèmes birationnels ). In 1991 he received the Fermat Prize from the University of Toulouse . In 2003 he gave the Sackler Lectures in Tel Aviv . He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society .

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SURNAME	Colliot-Thélène, Jean-Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	December 2, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH	Quimper