Étienne Fouvry (French pronunciation: [etjɛn fuvʁi], born 1953[1]) is a French mathematician working primarily in analytic number theory.[2]
Étienne Fouvry | |
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![]() Fouvry in 1986 | |
Born | 1953[1] |
Nationality | ![]() |
Alma mater | University of Bordeaux |
Awards | Sophie Germain Prize (2021) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Paris-Sud |
Thesis | Repartitions des suites dans les progressions arithmetiques (1981) |
Doctoral advisors | Jean-Marc Deshouillers, Henryk Iwaniec |
Website | www |
Fouvry defended his dissertation in 1981 at the University of Bordeaux under the joint direction of Henryk Iwaniec and Jean-Marc Deshouillers.[3] He is an emeritus professor at Paris-Saclay University and the 2021 recipient of the Sophie Germain Prize.[2]
In 1985, Fouvry showed that the first case of Fermat's Last Theorem is true for infinitely many primes.[4]
References
edit- ^ a b "Fouvry, Étienne (1953–)". IdRef. Retrieved 2024-07-10.
- ^ a b "Étienne Fouvry: Hunting for prime numbers". Paris-Saclay University. 4 February 2022. Retrieved 2024-06-12.
- ^ Étienne Fouvry at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Fouvry, Étienne (1985). "Théorème de Brun-Titchmarsh: application au théorème de Fermat" [The Brun-Titchmarsh theorem: application to the Fermat theorem]. Invent. Math. (in French). 79 (2): 383–407. Bibcode:1985InMat..79..383F. doi:10.1007/BF01388980. MR 0778134. S2CID 122719070.
External links
edit- Videos of Étienne Fouvry in the AV-Portal of the German National Library of Science and Technology