Michel Waldschmidt

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Michel Waldschmidt (born June 17, 1946 in Nancy ) is a French mathematician who deals with number theory (especially with transcendent numbers ).

Michel Waldschmidt 2007

Waldschmidt went to school in Nancy (Lycée Henri Poincaré) and studied at the University of Nancy (graduation in 1968). He received his doctorate in 1972 from the University of Bordeaux under Jean Fresnel ( Indépendance algébrique de nombres transcendants ), where he was Attaché de Recherche of the CNRS in 1971/72 . He was then a lecturer in Orsay and in 1972/73 Maître de conférences at the University of Paris VI (Pierre et Marie Curie), where he became a professor in 1973 and has remained since then. Waldschmidt was also a visiting professor at the École normal supérieure . He is a member of the Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu in Chevaleret.

Waldschmidt is one of the leading experts in the theory of transcendent numbers and Diophantine approximations.

In 1974 he received the Albert Chatelet Medal and in 1978 the CNRS silver medal. In 1980 he received the Prix Marquet of the Académie des Sciences and in 1986 the Distinguished Award of the Hardy Ramanujan Society. From 2001 to 2004 he was President of the French Mathematical Society. He is a member of the European and US Mathematical Societies and the Ramanujan Mathematical Society.

He is committed to international academic and student exchanges and has been Vice President of the mathematical research institute CIMPA in Nice since 2005. In this context he traveled a lot all over the world. He is the coordinator of the mathematical cooperation between France and India.

His PhD students include Eric Reyssat and Daniel Bertrand.

Fonts

  • Nombres transcendants. (= Lecture Notes in Mathematics . 402). Springer, Berlin et al. 1974, ISBN 3-540-06874-0 .
  • Nombres transcendants et groupes algébriques (= Astérisque. 69/70, ISSN  0303-1179 ). Société Mathématique de France, Paris 1979, ( online ; 2nd edition, ibid 1987).
  • Transcendence Methods (= Queens Papers in Pure and Applied Mathematics. 52, ISSN  0079-8797 ). Queen's University, Kingston Ont. 1979.
  • With Jean-Marc Luck, Pierre Moussa, Claude Itzykson (Eds.): From Number Theory to Physics. Lectures given at the meeting “Number Theory and Physics”, held at the “Center de Physique”, Les Houches, France, March 7-16, 1989. Springer, Berlin et al. 1992, ISBN 3-540-53342-7 .
  • Diophantine approximation on linear algebraic groups. Transcendence properties of the exponential function in several variables (= basic teachings of the mathematical sciences . 326). Springer, Berlin et al. 2000, ISBN 3-540-66785-7 .

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SURNAME Waldschmidt, Michel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Nancy