Leila Schneps

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Leila Schneps (born December 22, 1961 in Waltham (Massachusetts) ) is an American mathematician and writer who lives in France and works with number theory and arithmetic algebraic geometry. She published detective novels under the pen name Catherine Shaw.

Life

Schneps studied mathematics (and German studies) at Harvard University (Radcliffe College) with a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1983 and received his doctorate in 1985 from the University of Paris XI under John Coates (Thèse 3eme cycle: The μ-invariant of p-adic L function attached to elliptic curves with complex multiplication ), with the second part of the doctorate (Thèse de Doctorat) with Guy Henniart at the University of Paris-Süd 1990 ( p-adic L-functions and Galois theory ). In 1985/86 she was Maitre de Conference in Grenoble, 1986/87 at the University of Paris XI and 1989/80 at the University of Paris VII. She completed her habilitation in 1993 at the Université de Franche-Comté (On some aspects of inverse Galois theory) and has been researching for the CNRS since 1991 (from 2005 as Research Director). From 2000 she was at the Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu ( University of Paris VI ).

She also deals with the correct use of mathematics (especially statistics) in courtrooms and wrote a book about it with her daughter Coralie Colmez (* 1988). She is a member of the Bayes and Law Research Group. She also translates French mathematics books into English (e.g. Claire Voisin 's book on Hodge's theory (Volume 2), the book on Galois theory by Jean-Pierre Escofier , the Grothendieck- Serre correspondence and the autobiography of Laurent Schwartz ).

Schneps was a visiting scientist at the ETH Zurich, at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn (1988/89), at Harvard, at the MSRI and the Institute for Advanced Study . She deals with p-adic L-functions, Galois theory, geometric Galois theory and inverse Galois theory.

She is a founding member of the Grothendieck Circle and contacted the mathematician Alexander Grothendieck, who lived in seclusion in the Pyrenees, in the early 2000s with Pierre Lochak (her future husband). She gave a series of lectures on Grothendieck 's children's drawings (dessins d´enfants) (with the font of the same name by Grothendieck ).

Schneps has four children.

Fonts

  • Published by: Galois groups and fundamental groups, MSRI Publications, Cambridge University Press 2003
  • Editor with Pierre Lochak: Geometric Galois Actions, 2 volumes, Cambridge University Press 2007 (Conference Geometry and Arithmetic of Moduli Spaces , Luminy 1995, Volume 1: Around Grothendieck's Esquisse d'un Program, Volume 2: The Inverse Galois Problem, Moduli Spaces and Mapping class groups)
  • Editor: The Grothendieck Theory of Dessins D'Enfants, LMS Lecture Note Series, Cambridge University, 1994
  • with Xavier Buff , Jérôme Fehrenbach, Pierre Lochak, Pierre Vogel: Moduli Spaces of Curves, Mapping Class Groups and Field Theory, AMS and SMF 2003
  • Editor with Hiroaki Nakamura, Florian Pop , Akio Tamagawa: Galois – Teichmüller Theory and Arithmetic Geometry, Mathematical Society of Japan, Tokyo: Kinokuniya 2012
  • with Coralie Colmez: Math on Trial: How Numbers Get Used and Abused in the Courtroom, New York: Basic Books 2013
    • German edition: Probably murder. Mathematics on the witness stand, Hanser Verlag 2013, ISBN 3446436758

Detective Fiction as Catherine Shaw:

  • The Three Body Problem, a Cambridge Mystery, Allison & Busby 2005
  • Flowers Stained with Moonlight, Allison & Busby 2006
  • The Library Paradox, Allison & Busby 2007
  • The riddle of the river, New York: Felony & Mayhem Press 2009
  • Fatal Inheritance, Allison & Busby 2013

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leila Schneps in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English) Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used. Published in J. Number Theory, 25, 1987, 20-33
  2. ^ Obituary by Grothendieck in the Daily Telegraph, November 14, 2014
  3. ^ Review by Paul H. Edelman, Notices AMS, August 2013
  4. ^ Review by Richard Montgomery, Notices AMS, October 2006
personal data
SURNAME Schneps, Leila
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shaw, Catherine (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Waltham, Massachusetts