Philippe Tondeur

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Philippe Maurice Tondeur (born December 7, 1932 in Zurich ) is a Swiss - American mathematician who deals with differential geometry and topology .

Life

Tondeur received his doctorate in mathematics from the University of Zurich in 1961 . As a post-doctoral student he was at the University of Paris until 1963 , lecturer at the University of Zurich in 1963/64 and at Harvard University in 1964/65 . In 1965 he became a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley and in 1966 an associate professor at Wesleyan University . Since 1968 he has been Associate Professor and since 1970 Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , whose Mathematics Faculty he headed from 1996 until his retirement in 2002. In 1977/78 and 1991/92 he was also a member of the Center for Advanced Study there.

After his retirement he was director of mathematics at the National Science Foundation . He was the editor of the Illinois Journal of Mathematics.

Tondeur was visiting professor and visiting scholar in Buenos Aires, Auckland in New Zealand, Heidelberg, Rome, Santiago de Compostela, Leuven, at the ETH Zurich , the École polytechnique , at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, the University of Tohoku, the University of Hokkaido and Keio University in Tokyo.

He is particularly concerned with the geometry of leaves and the geometric theory of partial differential equations.

In 2012 he became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society .

Fonts

  • Affine connections to manifolds with an almost symplectic structure. In: Commentarii mathematici Helvetici. Vol. 36 (1962), Fasc. 3, pp. 234-264, doi: 10.5169 / seals-28057 (dissertation, University of Zurich, 1962).
  • Introduction to Lie groups and Transformation Groups , Springer Verlag 1965
  • with Franz Kamber: Flat Manifolds , Springer Verlag 1968
  • with Franz Kamber: Foliated bundles and characteristic classes , Springer Verlag 1975
  • with Franz Kamber: Invariant differential operators and the cohomology of Lie algebra sheaves , American Mathematical Society 1971
  • Foliations on Riemannian Manifolds , Springer Verlag 1988
  • Geometry of foliations , Birkhäuser Verlag 1997

He edited Kuo-Tsai Chen's Collected Works .

literature

  • Donald J. Albers, Gerald L. Alexanderson (Eds.): Fascinating Mathematical People: Interviews and Memoirs. Princeton University Press, Princeton 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ Philippe Tondeur in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
personal data
SURNAME Tondeur, Philippe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tondeur, Philippe Maurice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss-American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich