Ernest Corominas i Vigneaux (1913 – 24 January 1992) was a Spanish-French mathematician.
Born in
Barcelona, he studied
architecture and
mathematics
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at the
University of Barcelona, graduating in 1936. He served as in officer of engineering in the
Spanish Republican Army during the
Spanish Civil War. In 1939 he fled to France, before moving to South America in 1940. After working six months as an architect in Chile, he moved to
Argentina, where
Julio Rey Pastor offered him a lecturer position at the
University of Buenos Aires.
Corominas returned to Europe, where he attained his
doctorate at the
University of Paris in 1952, under the supervision of
Arnaud Denjoy. He then lectured in Barcelona,
Princeton, and
Caracas
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, before settling in France at the
University of Lyon. In 1966, Corominas became a French citizen.
He was awarded a
Guggenheim Fellowship
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in 1953.
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1913 births
1992 deaths
20th-century French mathematicians
20th-century Spanish mathematicians
University of Paris alumni
Academic staff of the University of Lyon
Spanish emigrants to France
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