Yvette Amice
Yvette Amice (born June 4, 1936 , † July 4, 1993 in Praz-Coutant, Passy municipality ) was a French mathematician who dealt with p-adic analysis and number theory.
Amice lost her father at an early age, was a brilliant student and from 1956 studied mathematics at the École normal supérieure de jeunes filles (ENSJF) in Sèvres , with the Agrégation (graduation) in 1959. She was then an assistant at the Faculté des Sciences de Paris and then Maître de conférences at the University of Tours and the University of Poitiers (1964/65). In 1965 she received her doctorate under Charles Pisot ( interpolation p-adique ). The subject of “p-adic interpolation” was also the subject of her Cours Peccot at the Collège de France 1966. From 1966 she was professor at the University of Bordeaux , from 1968 at the University of Poitiers and from 1970 at the newly founded University Paris VII . In the 1970s she headed the Faculty of Mathematics at the ENSJF in Sèvres as the successor to Pierre Samuel . At the same time, she held management positions at the University of Paris VII: from 1975 to 1978 she headed the Faculty of Mathematics, and from 1978 to 1981 she was Vice-President.
Amice began her research in p-adic analysis at a time when the area was experiencing an upswing (p-adic L-functions by Heinrich-Wolfgang Leopoldt and Tomio Kubota , proof of the rationality of the zeta function in the Weil conjectures by Bernard Dwork with p-adic methods, publication of the book Corps Locaux by Jean-Pierre Serre 1962). In particular, it tied in with the work of Kurt Mahler (1958) in her investigations on p-adic interpolation. She founded a French school in p-adic analysis, the status of which she summarized in a book in 1975.
From 1973 she led her own seminar on p-adic analysis (Groupe de travail d'analysis ultramétrique) with Philippe Robba at the Institut Henri Poincaré .
In 1975 she was President of the Société mathématique de France (SMF). There she was u. a. involved in the founding of the CIRM in Luminy, Marseille (together with Georges Poitou ). In 1991 she became a member of the Legion of Honor .
Her PhD students included Daniel Barsky and Jean Fresnel .
Fonts
- Les nombres p-adiques , Presse Universitaire de France 1975
- Interpolation p-adique , Bulletin SMF, Vol. 92, 1964, pp. 117-180, online
- Analysis p-adique , Seminaire Delange-Pisot-Poitou, Théorie des Nombres, Volume 1, 1959/60, Exposé 4, online
- Conjecture de Schanuel sur la transcendance d'exponentielles , Seminaire Bourbaki, No. 382, 1970/71, online
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Amice, Yvette |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 4, 1936 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th July 1993 |
| Place of death | Passy |