Emmanuel Breuillard (born 25 June 1977) is a French

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...

. He was the

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in the

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(DPMMS) at the

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, and is now Professor of Pure Mathematics at the

Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford The Mathematical Institute is the mathematics department at the University of Oxford in England. It is one of the nine departments of the university's Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division. The institute includes both pure and appli ...

as of January 1, 2022. University of Oxford Gazette, 9th December 2021, number 5333
/ref> He had previously been professor at

Paris-Sud 11 University Paris-Sud University (French: ''Université Paris-Sud''), also known as University of Paris — XI (or as Université d'Orsay before 1971), was a French research university distributed among several campuses in the southern suburbs of Paris, in ...

. In 2012, he won an

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for his contributions to

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and other fields. His area of research has been in group theoretic aspects of geometry, number theory and combinatorics. In 2014 he was an invited speaker at the

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* * 1977 births Living people 20th-century French mathematicians 21st-century French mathematicians École Normale Supérieure alumni Yale University alumni Academic staff of Paris-Sud University International Mathematical Olympiad participants Fellows of Worcester College, Oxford Sadleirian Professors of Pure Mathematics {{France-mathematician-stub