Bernard Dacorogna is a Swiss mathematician, born 15 October 1953, in

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, Egypt. He completed his undergraduate studies at the

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and his Ph.D. at

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, UK, in 1980 under the supervision of John M. Ball. He is professor at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL),

. 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 Function (mathematics), functions and functional (mathematics), functionals, to find maxima and minima of f ...

and of

partial differential equations In mathematics, a partial differential equation (PDE) is an equation which involves a multivariable function and one or more of its partial derivatives. The function is often thought of as an "unknown" that solves the equation, similar to how ...

. He has written several articles and books
The Chaire de la Vallée Poussin 2018
of the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) is attributed to him.

Books

Lecture Notes in Math. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Vol. 922 (1982)
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According to

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, the book is held in 419 libraries
Direct methods in the calculus of variations
Springer-Verlag, New-York (1989), 2nd ed. (2007). According to

, the book is held in 625 librarie
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Imperial College Press, London (2004), 2nd ed. (2009), 3rd ed (2014); According to

, the book is held in 882 libraries.WorldCat book entry
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avec P. Marcellini, Birkhäuser, PNLDE Series, Boston, 37 (1999)
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with G. Csato et O. Kneuss, Birkhäuser, PNLDE Series, New York, 83 (2012)
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References

External links

B. Dacorogna's website

PhD. Students of B. Dacorogna
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