Pierre Pansu (born 13 July 1959) is a French
mathematician
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and a member of the
Arthur Besse group and a close collaborator of
Mikhail Gromov. He is a professor at the
Université Paris-Sud 11 and the
École Normale Supérieure
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in Paris. His main research field is geometry. His contribution to mathematics was celebrated by a double event (a conference and a workshop)
co-organized for his 60th birthday by the
Clay Mathematics Institute.
Pierre Pansu is the grandson of French physician , and the great grand-nephew of mathematician and astronomer
Ernest Esclangon
Ernest Benjamin Esclangon (17 March 1876 – 28 January 1954) was a French astronomer and mathematician.
Born in Mison, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, in 1895 he started to study mathematics at the École Normale Supérieure, graduating in 1898. Loo ...
, inventor of the
talking clock
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, and brother of Robert Pansu, chemist and research director at
CNRS
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In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 eng ...
.
See also
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Metric Structures for Riemannian and Non-Riemannian Spaces
*
Pansu derivative
References
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* Prix
Georges Charpak 2013
Académie des Sciences
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,
France
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.
External links
Pansu's website at Université Paris-Sud 11*
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References
1959 births
Living people
20th-century French mathematicians
21st-century French mathematicians
Academic staff of the École Normale Supérieure
International Mathematical Olympiad participants
Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research
Scientists from Lyon
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