Jean-Paul Pier

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Jean-Paul Pier

Jean-Paul Pier (born July 5, 1933 in Luxembourg ; † December 14, 2016 in Bettembourg ) was a Luxembourg mathematician who dealt with analysis, the history of mathematics and mathematics education.

Pier was a professor at the Center Universitaire de Luxembourg for a long time. As a post-doctoral student he was at the University of Oregon and he was temporarily at the Center Nucléaire in Grenoble.

Pier was visiting professor at the Catholic University of Leuven in 1994/95.

He dealt mainly with harmonic analysis and the history of mathematics, especially analysis in the 20th century. He is the editor of two anthologies, which are standard works on the history of mathematics in the 20th century.

He was also active internationally in various scientific committees, for example for NATO, and was active in persuading UNESCO to declare 2000 the Year of Mathematics (the proposal came from the Luxembourg Commission for UNESCO on his initiative). He was president of the Luxembourg Mathematical Society.

In 2011 he received the Grand Prix des Sciences Mathématiques / Prix de la Bourse de Luxembourg from the Institut Grand Ducal.

Fonts

  • Mathematical Analysis during the 20th century , Oxford University Press 2001
  • Amenable Banach algebras , Longman Scientific, Wiley 1988
  • Amenable Locally compact groups , Wiley 1984
  • L'analysis harmonique: son développement historique , Paris, Masson 1990
  • Histoire de l´intégration: vingt-cinq siècles de mathématiques , Paris, Masson 1996
  • Mathématiques entre savoir et connaissance , Vuibert, Paris 2006
  • Editor Development of Mathematics 1900-1950 , Birkhäuser 1995 (therein from Pier Guidelines 1900-1950 with Pierre Dugac , Beno Eckmann , Jean Mawhin and Intégration et mesure 1900-1960 )
  • Editor Development of Mathematics 1950-2000 , Birkhäuser 2000
  • Pier: Bourbaki, an epiphenomenon in the history of mathematics, pdf

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Pier, Jean-Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Luxembourg mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Luxembourg
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 2016
Place of death Bettembourg