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French mathematician
Michèle Raynaud
BornMichèle Chaumartin
(1938-01-09) 9 January 1938 (age 86)
France
NationalityFrench
Alma materParis Diderot University
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Doctoral advisorAlexander Grothendieck

Michèle Raynaud (born Michèle Chaumartin;(1938-01-09)January 9, 1938 ) is a French mathematician, who works on algebraic geometry and who worked with Alexandre Grothendieck in Paris in the 1960s at the Institut des hautes études scientifiques (IHÉS).

Biography

Raynaud was a member of the séminaire de géométrie algébrique du Bois Marie (SGA) 1 and 2 and obtained her doctorate in 1972, supervised by Grothendieck at Paris Diderot University. Her thesis was entitled Théorèmes de Lefschetz en cohomologie cohérente et en cohomologie étale. Grothendieck wrote about her doctoral thesis in Récoltes et Semailles (p.168 Chapitre 8.1.) describing it as original, entirely independent, and a major work.

Michèle Raynaud was married to the mathematician Michel Raynaud who was also a member of the Grothendieck school.

Publications

Notes and references

  1. Illusie, Luc (2019). "Michel Raynaud (1938–2018)" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 66 (1). Retrieved 18 August 2020.
  2. "BnF Catalogue général". Retrieved 8 October 2019.
  3. "VIAF". Retrieved 8 October 2019.
  4. Michèle Raynaud at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. Gassiat, Elisabeth (March 2018). "Décès de Michel Raynaud". Société Mathématique de France (in French). Retrieved 2018-03-14.
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