Pierre Pansu | |
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Born | Lyon, France | 13 July 1959
Nationality | French |
Alma mater | École Normale Supérieure |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | École Normale Supérieure Université Paris-Sud 11 |
Thesis | Géométrie du groupe de Heisenberg (1982) |
Doctoral advisor | Marcel Berger |
Other academic advisors | Mikhail Gromov |
Doctoral students | Cornelia Druțu [1] |
Pierre Pansu (born 13 July 1959) is a French mathematician and a member of the Arthur Besse group and a close collaborator of Mikhail Gromov. He is a professor at the Université Paris-Sud 11 and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. His main research field is geometry. His contribution to mathematics was celebrated by a double event (a conference and a workshop)[2] co-organized for his 60th birthday by the Clay Mathematics Institute.
Pierre Pansu is the grandson of French physician Félix EsclangonErnest Esclangon, inventor of the talking clock, and brother of Robert Pansu, chemist and research director at CNRS.
, and the great grand-nephew of mathematician and astronomer