Michel Duflo (born 15 August 1943) is a French mathematician who works in the representation theory of

Lie group In mathematics, a Lie group (pronounced ) is a group (mathematics), group that is also a differentiable manifold, such that group multiplication and taking inverses are both differentiable. A manifold is a space that locally resembles Eucli ...

Life

From 1962, Duflo studied at the

École normale supérieure École or Ecole may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by Secondary education in France, secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing i ...

and received a doctorate under the supervision of

Jacques Dixmier Jacques Dixmier (born 24 May 1924) is a French mathematician. He worked on operator algebras, especially C*-algebras, and wrote several of the standard reference books on them, and introduced the Dixmier trace and the Dixmier mapping. Biogra ...

. Currently, he is an

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at the

University of Paris VII Paris Diderot University, also known as Paris 7 (), was a French university located in Paris, France. It was one of the inheritors of the historic University of Paris, which was split into 13 universities in 1970. Paris Diderot merged with Paris ...

(Denis Diderot) at the

Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu An institute is an organizational body created for a certain purpose. They are often research organisations (research institutes) created to do research on specific topics, or can also be a professional body. In some countries, institutes ca ...

, and at the École normale supérieure. Duflo has worked on the

orbit method In mathematics, the orbit method (also known as the Kirillov theory, the method of coadjoint orbits and by a few similar names) establishes a correspondence between irreducible unitary representations of a Lie group and its coadjoint orbits: orbit ...

of Alexander Kirillov. He introduced the Duflo isomorphism, an isomorphism between the center of the enveloping algebra of a finite-dimensional Lie algebra and the invariants of its symmetric algebra. In 1974 he was an invited speaker at 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 IMU Abacus Medal (known before ...

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(''Inversion formula and invariant differential operators on solvable Lie groups''). Duflo received the Prix Le Conte of the

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; in 1986 he became a corresponding member of the Academy. His students include

Laurent Clozel Laurent Clozel (born 23 October 1953 in Gap, France) is a French mathematician and professor at Paris-Saclay University. His mathematical work is in the area of automorphic forms, including the Langlands program. Career and distinctions Cloze ...

. His daughter is the

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-winning economist

Esther Duflo Esther Duflo, FBA (; born 25 October 1972) is a French-American economist currently serving as the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 2019, she w ...

References

*The original article was a Google translation of the corresponding German article.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Duflo, Michel 20th-century French mathematicians 21st-century French mathematicians Members of the French Academy of Sciences Living people 1943 births École Normale Supérieure alumni Academic staff of Paris Diderot University Academic staff of the École Normale Supérieure