Loïc Merel (born 13 August 1965) is a French
mathematician. His research interests include
modular form
In mathematics, a modular form is a (complex) analytic function on the upper half-plane satisfying a certain kind of functional equation with respect to the Group action (mathematics), group action of the modular group, and also satisfying a grow ...
s and
number theory.
Career
Born in
Carhaix-Plouguer,
Brittany, Merel became a student at the
École Normale Supérieure. He finished his
doctorate at
Pierre and Marie Curie University
Pierre and Marie Curie University (french: link=no, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, UPMC), also known as Paris 6, was a public university, public research university in Paris, France, from 1971 to 2017. The university was located on the Jussi ...
under supervision of
Joseph Oesterlé
Joseph Oesterlé (born 1954) is a French mathematician who, along with David Masser
David William Masser (born 8 November 1948) is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Basel. He is known ...
in 1993. His thesis on modular symbols took inspiration from the work of
Yuri Manin and
Barry Mazur
Barry Charles Mazur (; born December 19, 1937) is an American mathematician and the Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University. His contributions to mathematics include his contributions to Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in ...
from the 1970s. In 1996, Merel proved the
torsion conjecture for elliptic curves over any number field (which was only known for number fields of degree up to 8 at the time). In recognition of his achievement, in 1998 he was an Invited Speaker of the
International Congress of Mathematicians
The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU).
The Fields Medals, the Nevanlinna Prize (to be rename ...
in Berlin.
Awards
Merel has received numerous awards, including the
EMS Prize (1996), the
Blumenthal Award (1997) for the advancement of research in pure mathematics,
and the (1998) of the
French Academy of Sciences
The French Academy of Sciences (French: ''Académie des sciences'') is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV of France, Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French Scientific me ...
.
References
External links
Website at Paris Diderot University
1965 births
Living people
École Normale Supérieure alumni
People from Finistère
21st-century French mathematicians
University of Paris alumni
Scientists from Brittany
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