Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène
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Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène (born 2 December 1947), is a French
mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...
. He is a Directeur de Recherches at CNRS at the Université Paris-Saclay in
Orsay Orsay () is a commune in the Essonne department in Île-de-France in northern France. It is located in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France, from the centre of Paris. A fortified location of the Chevreuse valley since the 8th centur ...
. He studies mainly
number theory Number theory (or arithmetic or higher arithmetic in older usage) is a branch of pure mathematics devoted primarily to the study of the integers and integer-valued functions. German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) said, "Mat ...
and
arithmetic geometry In mathematics, arithmetic geometry is roughly the application of techniques from algebraic geometry to problems in number theory. Arithmetic geometry is centered around Diophantine geometry, the study of rational points of algebraic varieties. ...
.


Awards

*Prize of the French Academy of Sciences " Charles Louis de Saulces de Freycine" (1985) *Invited Speaker to the International Congress of Mathematicians (Berkeley 1986) *
Fermat Prize The Fermat prize of mathematical research biennially rewards research works in fields where the contributions of Pierre de Fermat have been decisive: * Statements of variational principles * Foundations of probability and analytic geometry * Numbe ...
for mathematical research (1991) *Grand prize of the French Academy of Sciences " Léonid Frank" (2009) *Fellow of the
American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...
(2012)List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2012-11-10.


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The personal web page of Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Colliot-Thelene, Jean Louis 1947 births Number theorists Paris-Sud University alumni École Normale Supérieure alumni 20th-century French mathematicians 21st-century French mathematicians Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Living people Academic staff of Paris-Saclay University