Gérald Tenenbaum is a French
mathematician
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and
novelist
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, born in
Nancy on 1 April 1952.
[Zéro faute à l’IUT Nancy-Brabois]
press release, University of Lorraine, January 30, 2012. Accessed on line June 26, 2012.
He is one of the namesakes of the
Erdős–Tenenbaum–Ford constant
The Erdős–Tenenbaum–Ford constant is a mathematical constant that appears in number theory. Named after mathematicians Paul Erdős, Gérald Tenenbaum, and Kevin Ford, it is defined as
:\delta := 1 - \frac = 0.0860713320\dots
where \log is the ...
.
Biography
An alumnus of the
École Polytechnique
École may refer to:
* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine
The Seine ( , ) is a river in northern Franc ...
, he has been professor of mathematics at the
Institut Élie Cartan at
Université de Lorraine
The University of Lorraine (), often abbreviated in UL, is a grand établissement created on 1 January 2012, by the merger of Henri Poincaré University, Nancy 2 University, Paul Verlaine University – Metz and the National Polytechnic Institute ...
(formally université Henri Poincaré, Nancy-1) since 1981.
An associate of
Paul Erdős and specialist in
analytic and
probabilistic number theory, Gérald Tenenbaum received the A-X Gaston Julia prize in 1976, the
Albert Châtelet medal in algebra and number theory in 1985 and, together with
Michel Mendès France, the
Paul Doistau - Émile Blutet prize from the
French Academy of Sciences
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in 1999
PRIX PAUL DOISTAU-ÉMILE BLUTET DE L’INFORMATION SCIENTIFIQUE
, French Academy of Sciences. Accessed on line June 26, 2012.
While continuing his mathematical research activities, he started publishing literary works from the 1980s on: movie criticism in the Belgian magazine ''Regards'', a theater play in 1999, and novels from 2002 on. His novel ''L'Ordre des jours'', published in 2008 by Héloïse d'Ormesson, received the Prix Erckmann-Chatrian The prix Erckmann-Chatrian is a literary award from Lorraine, awarded every year since 1925 in memory of the literary duo Erckmann-Chatrian. It rewards a written prose work by someone form Lorraine or about Lorraine. It is often nicknamed the " Go ...
the same year.
Selected bibliography
Mathematics
* (with Richard R. Hall) ''Divisors'', Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1988, Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics, vol. 90, .
* ''Introduction à la théorie analytique et probabiliste des nombres'', Institut Elie Cartan, 1990, ; 2nd rev. ed., Paris, Société Mathématique de France, 1995, ; 4th ed., Paris, Belin, 2015, Collection Échelles, ; translated into English, by P. Ion, as ''Introduction to analytic and probabilistic number theory'', Graduate Studies in Mathematics #163, American Mathematical Society 2015, .
* (with Michel Mendès France) ''Les nombres premiers'', Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1997, collection Que sais-je? #571; translated into English, by Philip G. Spain, as ''The Prime Numbers and Their Distribution'', American Mathematical Society, 2000, reprinted with corrections 2001, .
* (with Michel Mendès France) ''Les Nombres premiers, entre l'ordre et le chaos'', Dunod, 2011, 2014, .
''Théorie analytique et probabiliste des nombres : 307 exercices corrigés''
with the collaboration of Jie Wu, Belin, 2014 .
Odile Jacob, 2019 .
Literature
* ''Trois pièces faciles'', drama, L'Harmattan, 1999, .
* ''Rendez-vous au bord d'une ombre'', novel, Le bord de l'eau, 2002, .
* ''Le Geste'', novel, Héloïse d'Ormesson, 2006, .
* ''Le Problème de Nath'', juvenile novel, Belin, 2007, .
* ''L'Ordre des jours'', novel, Héloïse d'Ormessson, 2008, .
* ''Souffles couplés'', novel, Héloïse d'Ormessson, 2010, .
* ''L'Affinité des traces'', novel, Héloïse d'Ormessson, 2012, .
* ''Peau vive'', novel, La Grande Ourse, 2014, .
'' Regards d'absence ''
texts accompanying the drawings of Philippe Ancel, éds. Serge Domini, 2016,
novel, Éditions de l'Aube, 2017,
essay, Odile Jacob, 2019, .
novel, Héloïse d'Ormesson, 2019,
References
External links
Homepage of Gérald Tenenbaum at the Institut Élie Cartan de Lorraine
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Writers from Nancy, France
1952 births
Living people
Number theorists
20th-century French novelists
21st-century French novelists
20th-century French mathematicians
21st-century French mathematicians
French male novelists
20th-century French male writers
21st-century French male writers
Scientists from Nancy, France