Alain Connes
Alain Connes (born April 1, 1947) is a French mathematician, currently Professor at the College de France (Paris, France), IHES (Bures-sur-Yvette, France) and Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee).
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Work
He is a specialist in Von Neumann algebras and succeeded in classifying injective factors.
The remarkable links between this subject, the tools he and others devised to tackle the problem and other subjects in theoretical physics, particle physics, and differential geometry, made him emphasize noncommutative geometry (which is also the title of his major book to date).
Awards and honours
Alain Connes was awarded the Fields Medal in 1982, the Crafoord Prize in 2001 and the gold medal of the CNRS in 2004. He is a member of several foreign academies and societies, including French Academy of Sciences, Danish Academy of Sciences, Norwegian Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, and US National Academy of Sciences.
See also
External links
- Alain Connes Official Web Site containing many downloadable papers, and his book Non-commutative geometry, ISBN 0-12-185860-X.
- O'Connor, John J., and Edmund F. Robertson. "Alain Connes". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- Alain Connes at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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1936: Ahlfors • Douglas || 1950: Schwartz • Selberg || 1954: Kodaira • Serre || 1958: Roth • Thom || 1962: Hörmander • Milnor || 1966: Atiyah • Cohen • Grothendieck • Smale || 1970: Baker • Hironaka • Novikov • Thompson || 1974: Bombieri • Mumford || 1978: Deligne • Fefferman • Margulis • Quillen || 1982: Connes • Thurston • Yau || 1986: Donaldson • Faltings • Freedman || 1990: Drinfeld • Jones • Mori • Witten || 1994: Zelmanov • Lions • Bourgain • Yoccoz || 1998: Borcherds • Gowers • Kontsevich • McMullen || 2002: Lafforgue • Voevodsky || 2006: Okounkov • Perelman • Tao • Werner |
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1947 births | Living people | 20th century mathematicians | 21st century mathematicians | French mathematicians | Fields Medalists | Mathematical analysts | Differential geometers | Alumni of the École Normale Supérieure | Members and associates of the US National Academy of Sciences | Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences | Erdős number 3