Gérald Tenenbaum is a French

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and

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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.

Biography

An alumnus of the

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, he has been professor of mathematics at the Institut Élie Cartan at

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(formally université Henri Poincaré, Nancy-1) since 1981. An associate of

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and specialist in

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and

probabilistic number theory In mathematics, Probabilistic number theory is a subfield of number theory, which explicitly uses probability to answer questions about the integers and integer-valued functions. One basic idea underlying it is that different prime numbers are, i ...

, Gérald Tenenbaum received the A-X Gaston Julia prize in 1976, the

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medal in algebra and number theory in 1985 and, together with Michel Mendès France, the Paul Doistau - Émile Blutet prize from the

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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 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,

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, 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

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#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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