Largely unknown today, Bourbaki is likely the last mathematician to master nearly all aspects of the field. A consummate collaborator, he made fundamental contributions to important mathematical ...

A French mathematician known for his pioneering work on a theory used for applications ranging from image compression to the detection of gravitational waves from the merging of black holes has earned ...

Yves Meyer, a French Jewish mathematician, won the Abel Prize on Tuesday for his work on the “wavelet theory,” which has been applied in data compression, noise reduction, medical imaging and digital ...

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters announced today that it would award the 2008 Abel Prize to John G. Thompson, a professor of mathematics at the University of Florida, and Jacques Tits, an ...

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This is the first time that the CNRS has opened a UMI in the UK and it will have equal status to a CNRS laboratory in France. It represents the highest level of collaboration and will establish a long ...

Francois Baccelli joins the University of Texas at Austin this fall as the first Simons Chair in Mathematics and Electrical and Computer Engineering AUSTIN, Texas - Renowned French mathematician and ...

Until this year, Cédric Villani, Ph.D., was a world-class scholar, a man affectionately nicknamed “the Lady Gaga of French Mathematicians,” and the flamboyantly dressed genius behind the TED talk, ...

Cédric Villani is one of France's top mathematicians, working across several fields of the discipline. He's won a number of titles and awards for his work. A professor at Claude Bernard Lyon 1 ...

A French mathematician known for his pioneering work on a theory used for applications ranging from image compression to the detection of gravitational waves from the merging of black holes has earned ...