Michel Waldschmidt (born June 17, 1946 at

Nancy, France Nancy is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the northeastern Departments of France, French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle. It was the capital of the Duchy of Lorraine, which was Lorraine and Barrois, annexed by France under King Louis X ...

) is a French

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, specializing in

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, especially

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Career

Waldschmidt was educated at Lycée Henri Poincaré and the

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until 1968. In 1972 he defended his thesis, titled ''Indépendance algébrique de nombres transcendants'' (Algebraic independence of transcendental numbers) and directed by Jean Fresnel, the

University of Bordeaux The University of Bordeaux (, ) is a public research university based in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. It has several campuses in the cities and towns of Bordeaux, Dax, Gradignan, Périgueux, Pessac, and Talence. There are al ...

. He was a research associate of the

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at the University of Bordeaux in 1971–1972. He was then a lecturer at

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in 1972–1973. He became a lecturer at the

University of Paris VI Pierre and Marie Curie University ( , UPMC), also known as Paris VI, was a public research university in Paris, France, from 1971 to 2017. The university was located on the Jussieu Campus in the Latin Quarter of the 5th arrondissement of Paris, ...

(Pierre et Marie Curie) and then became a professor there in 1973. He is a member of the . Waldschmidt was also a visiting professor at places including the

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. From 2001 to 2004 he was president of the Mathematical Society of France. He is a member of several mathematical societies, including the

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, the

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and

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Awards and honors

Waldschmidt was awarded the

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Prize in 1974, the

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in 1978, the Marquet Prize of Academy of Sciences in 1980 and the Special Award of the

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– Ramanujan Society in 1986. In 2021, he was awarded the Bertrand Russell Prize by the

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Selected publications

*''Diophantine approximation on linear algebraic groups.'' Springer, 2000 *''Nombres transcendants'',

Lecture Notes in Mathematics ''Lecture Notes in Mathematics'' is a book series in the field of mathematics, including articles related to both research and teaching. It was established in 1964 and was edited by A. Dold, Heidelberg and B. Eckmann, Zürich. Its publisher is Sp ...

, vol. 402, 1974, Springer *''Nombres transcendants et groupes algébriques'', Astérisque, vol. 69/70, 1979, 2^e tirage 1987 *''Transcendence Methods'', Queens Papers in Pure and Applied Mathematics, 1979 *With J.-M. Luck, P. Moussa, C. Itzykson (eds.), ''From Number Theory to Physics'', 1995

References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Waldschmidt, Michel French mathematicians 1946 births Living people French number theorists Academic staff of the University of Paris Nancy-Université alumni