Bernard Dacorogna is a Swiss mathematician, born 15 October 1953, in
Alexandria
Alexandria ( or ; ar, ٱلْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّةُ ; grc-gre, Αλεξάνδρεια, Alexándria) is the second largest city in Egypt, and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. Founded in by Alexander the Great, Alexandri ...
, Egypt.
He completed his undergraduate studies at the
University of Geneva
The University of Geneva (French: ''Université de Genève'') is a public research university located in Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded in 1559 by John Calvin as a theological seminary. It remained focused on theology until the 17th centur ...
in
Switzerland and his Ph.D. at
Heriot-Watt University
Heriot-Watt University ( gd, Oilthigh Heriot-Watt) is a public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was established in 1821 as the School of Arts of Edinburgh, the world's first mechanics' institute, and subsequently granted univ ...
in
Edinburgh, UK, in 1980 under the supervision of
John M. Ball
Sir John Macleod Ball (born 19 May 1948) is a British mathematician and former Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He was the president of the International Mathematical Union from 2003 to 2006 and a Fellow of ...
.
He is professor at
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL),
Switzerland.
He is a specialist of the
calculus of variations
The calculus of variations (or Variational Calculus) is a field of mathematical analysis that uses variations, which are small changes in functions
and functionals, to find maxima and minima of functionals: mappings from a set of functions t ...
and of
partial differential equations. He has written several articles and books
The Chaire de la Vallée Poussin 2018of the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) is attributed to him.
Books
Lecture Notes in Math. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Vol. 922 (1982)
PDFAccording to
WorldCat, the book is held in 419 libraries
Direct methods in the calculus of variations Springer-Verlag, New-York (1989), 2nd ed. (2007). According to
WorldCat, the book is held in 625 librarie
PDF
Imperial College Press, London (2004), 2nd ed. (2009), 3rd ed (2014); According to
WorldCat, the book is held in 882 libraries.
WorldCat book entry
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PDF
avec P. Marcellini, Birkhaüser, PNLDE Series, Boston, 37 (1999).
PDF
with G. Csato et O. Kneuss, Birkhaüser, PNLDE Series, New York, 83 (2012)
PDF
References
External links
B. Dacorogna's website
PhD. Students of B. Dacorogna
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1953 births
20th-century Swiss mathematicians
21st-century Swiss mathematicians
University of Geneva alumni
Academic staff of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Living people