Michel Ledoux (born 1958) is a French mathematician, specializing in probability theory. He is a professor at the

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. Ledoux received in 1985 his PhD from the

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with thesis ''Propriétés limites des variables aléatoires vectorielles'' which was made under the supervision of Xavier Fernique. He has done important research on the

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in analysis and probability theory. In 2010 he received the Servant Prize of the

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. In 2014 he was an

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in Seoul and gave a talk ''Heat flows, geometric and functional inequalities''.

Selected publications

* * 2nd edition 2002 * * *

References

External links

Ledoux's homepage at the University of Toulouse
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