Christophe Soulé (born 1951) is a French mathematician working in
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.
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Education
Soulé started his studies in 1970 at
École Normale Supérieure
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* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education
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in
Paris
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.
He completed his
Ph.D. at the
University of Paris
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in 1979 under the supervision of
Max Karoubi and
Roger Godement, with a dissertation titled ''K-Théorie des anneaux d'entiers de corps de nombres et cohomologie étale''.
Awards and recognition
In 1979, he was awarded a
CNRS Bronze Medal. He received the
Prix J. Ponti
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in 1985 and the
Prize Ampère in 1993.
Since 2001, he is member of the
French Academy of Sciences
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. In 1983, he was
invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians
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(ICM) in Warsaw.
Publications
* Christophe Soulé, with the collaboration of
Dan Abramovich, Jean-François Burnol, and Jürg Kramer: ''Lectures on Arakelov Geometry.'' Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics 33.
Cambridge University Press
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Cambr ...
, 1992. ,
* Henri Gillet, Christophe Soulé: ''An arithmetic Riemann–Roch Theorem'',
Inventiones Mathematicae
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110 (1992), no. 3, 473–543. ,
References
External links
personal page*
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Living people
1951 births
École Normale Supérieure alumni
University of Paris alumni
20th-century French mathematicians
21st-century French mathematicians
Members of the French Academy of Sciences
Arithmetic geometers