| Arnaud Beauville | |
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| Born | (1947-05-10) 10 May 1947 (age 77) Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Alma mater | Paris Diderot University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Nice Sophia Antipolis Paris-Sud 11 University University of Angers |
| Doctoral advisor | Jean-Louis Verdier |
| Doctoral students | Olivier Debarre Yves Laszlo Claire Voisin |
Arnaud Beauville (born 10 May 1947) is a French mathematician, whose research interest is algebraic geometry.
Beauville earned his doctorate from Paris Diderot University in 1977, with a thesis regarding Prym varieties and the Schottky problem, under supervision of Jean-Louis Verdier.
He has been a professor at the Université Paris-Sud, then Director of the Mathematics Department at the École Normale Supérieure. He is currently Professor emeritus at the Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis.
Beauville was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in the summer of 1982. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1986 at Berkeley. He was a member of Bourbaki. He has had 25 Ph.D. students, among them Claire Voisin, Olivier Debarre, Yves Laszlo.
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
See also
References
- "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2005-10-17. Retrieved 2012-09-12.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - Institute for Advanced Study: A Community of Scholars Archived 2013-01-06 at the Wayback Machine
- Mashaal, Maurice (2006), Bourbaki: a secret society of mathematicians, American Mathematical Society, p. 18, ISBN 978-0-8218-3967-6.
- List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2012-11-10.
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