Dominique Pierre Perrin (b. 1946) is a French
mathematician
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theoretical computer scientist known for his contributions to
coding theory and to
combinatorics on words. He is a professor of the
University of Marne-la-Vallée
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and currently serves as the President of
ESIEE Paris
ESIEE Paris (french: École Supérieure d'Ingénieurs en Électrotechnique et Électronique) is a grande école of engineering located in Marne-la-Vallée. The school was established in 1904 and is part of the ESIEE network of graduate schools.
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Biography
Perrin earned his PhD from
Paris 7 University
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in 1975. In his early career, he was a
CNRS
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researcher (1970–1977) and taught at the
University of Chile (1972–1973). Later, he worked as a professor at the
University of Rouen (1977–1983),
Paris 7 University
Paris Diderot University, also known as Paris 7 (french: Université Paris Diderot), was a French university located in Paris, France. It was one of the inheritors of the historic University of Paris, which was split into 13 universities in 197 ...
(1983–1993), and
École Polytechnique
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* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
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(1982–2002). Since 1993, Perrin is a professor at the
University of Marne-la-Vallée
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, and since 2004, he is the President of
ESIEE Paris
ESIEE Paris (french: École Supérieure d'Ingénieurs en Électrotechnique et Électronique) is a grande école of engineering located in Marne-la-Vallée. The school was established in 1904 and is part of the ESIEE network of graduate schools.
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Perrin is a member of
Academia Europaea since 1989.
Scientific contributions
Perrin has been a member of the
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* Hubert Lothaire (1865 – 1929), Belgian military officer
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group of mathematicians that developed the foundations of combinatorics on words. He has co-authored three scientific monographs: "Theory of Codes" (1985), "Codes and Automata" (2009), and "Infinite Words" (2004), as well as the three
Lothaire books.
Perrin has published around 50 research articles in
formal language theory.
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French mathematicians
French computer scientists
Members of Academia Europaea
1946 births
Living people