Michel Waldschmidt

Michel Waldschmidt (born June 17, 1946 at Nancy, France) is a French mathematician, specializing in number theory, especially transcendental numbers.

Career edit

Waldschmidt was educated at Lycée Henri Poincaré and the University of Nancy 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.

He was a research associate of the CNRS at the University of Bordeaux in 1971–1972. He was then a lecturer at Paris-Sud 11 University in 1972–1973. He became a lecturer at the University of Paris VI (Pierre et Marie Curie) and then became a professor there in 1973. He is a member of the Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu^[fr].

Waldschmidt was also a visiting professor at places including the École normale supérieure.

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

He is interested in exchange programs for researchers and students and was, from 2005 to 2009, Vice President of the Centre International de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées (CIMPA).^{[citation needed]}

Awards and honors edit

Waldschmidt was awarded the Albert Châtelet Prize in 1974, the CNRS Silver Medal in 1978, the Marquet Prize^[1] of Academy of Sciences in 1980 and the Special Award of the Hardy–Ramanujan Society in 1986. In 2021, he was awarded the Bertrand Russell Prize by the American Mathematical Society.^[2]

Selected publications edit

Diophantine approximation on linear algebraic groups. Springer, 2000 ISBN 978-3-540-66785-8
Nombres transcendants, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol. 402, 1974, Springer ISBN 978-3-540-06874-7^[3]
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 edit

^ The "Prix Marquet" was established in 1605 by Barthélemy Marquet; see Armorial du Dauphiné p. 385.
^ "2021 Bertrand Russell Prize to Michel Waldschmidt". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
^ Stolarsky, Kenneth B. (1978). "Review: Transcendental number theory by Alan Baker; Lectures on transcendental numbers by Kurt Mahler; Nombres transcendants by Michel Waldschmidt" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (8): 1370–1378. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1978-14584-4.

External links edit

Official website
Homepage to Jussieu
Michel Waldschmidt at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
Biography at the Wayback Machine (archived February 23, 2008) on frenchsciencetoday.org
search on author Michel Waldschmidt from Google Scholar

[1] The "Prix Marquet" was established in 1605 by Barthélemy Marquet; see Armorial du Dauphiné p. 385.

[2] "2021 Bertrand Russell Prize to Michel Waldschmidt". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 10 January 2021.

[3] Stolarsky, Kenneth B. (1978). "Review: Transcendental number theory by Alan Baker; Lectures on transcendental numbers by Kurt Mahler; Nombres transcendants by Michel Waldschmidt" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (8): 1370–1378. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1978-14584-4.

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