Jean-Benoît Bost (born 27 July 1961, in
Neuilly-sur-Seine
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) is a French mathematician.
Early life and education
In 1977, Bost graduated from the
Lycée Louis-le-Grand
The Lycée Louis-le-Grand (), also referred to simply as Louis-le-Grand or by its acronym LLG, is a public Lycée (French secondary school, also known as sixth form college) located on rue Saint-Jacques in central Paris. It was founded in the ...
and finished first in the
Concours général
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, the national competition for the places at the elite schools. Bost studied from 1979 to 1983 (qualifying in 1981 for the ''agrégation des mathématiques'') at the
École Normale Supérieure
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* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
* École, Savoi ...
(ENS), where he was from 1984 to 1988 ''
agrégé-préparateur'' (teacher) and worked under the direction of
Alain Connes
Alain Connes (; born 1 April 1947) is a French mathematician, and a theoretical physicist, known for his contributions to the study of operator algebras and noncommutative geometry. He is a professor at the , , Ohio State University and Vande ...
.
Career
From 1988, Bost was ''chargé de recherches'' and from 1993 ''directeur de recherches'' at
CNRS
The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe.
In 2016, it employed 31,637 ...
. From 1993 to 2006, he was ''maître de conferences'' at the
École polytechnique
École may refer to:
* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
* École, Savoi ...
. He has been a professor at l'
Université Paris-Saclay
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(Paris XI) in
Orsay
Orsay () is a Communes of France, commune in the Essonne Departments of France, department in ÃŽle-de-France in northern France. It is located in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France, from the Kilometre Zero, centre of Paris.
A fortifie ...
since 1998.
Research
Bost deals with noncommutative geometry (partly in collaboration with
Alain Connes
Alain Connes (; born 1 April 1947) is a French mathematician, and a theoretical physicist, known for his contributions to the study of operator algebras and noncommutative geometry. He is a professor at the , , Ohio State University and Vande ...
) with applications to quantum field theory, algebraic geometry, and arithmetic geometry. The eponymous
Bost conjecture is a variant of the
Baum–Connes conjecture In mathematics, specifically in operator K-theory, the Baum–Connes conjecture suggests a link between the operator K-theory, K-theory of the reduced C*-algebra of a group theory, group and the K-homology of the classifying space of proper act ...
.
Awards and honors
In 1990, he received the Prix Peccot-Vimont of the
Collège de France
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. In 2002, he received the
Prix Élie Cartan of the
Académie des sciences
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. In 1986 he was an invited speaker at the
International Congress on Mathematical Physics
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Prizes
The Henri Poin ...
in
Marseille
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. In 2006, he was an invited speaker with talk ''Evaluation maps, slopes, and algebraicity criteria'' at the
International Congress of Mathematicians
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The Fields Medals, the Nevanlinna Prize (to be rename ...
in
Madrid
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.
From 2005 to 2015, Bost was a senior member of the
Institut Universitaire de France
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. He was elected in 2012 a Fellow of the
American Mathematical Society
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and in 2016 a member of
Academia Europaea
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The Academia was founded in 1988 as a functioning Europe-wide Academy that encompasses all fields of scholarly inquiry. It acts as co-ordinator of Europea ...
.
See also
*
Arakelov theory In mathematics, Arakelov theory (or Arakelov geometry) is an approach to Diophantine geometry, named for Suren Arakelov. It is used to study Diophantine equations in higher dimensions.
Background
The main motivation behind Arakelov geometry is t ...
*
Bost–Connes system
Selected publications
* As editor with
François Loeser
François Loeser (born August 25, 1958) is a French mathematician. He is Professor of Mathematics at the Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University in Paris. From 2000 to 2010 he was Professor at École Normale Supérieure. Since 2015, he is a senior member ...
and
Michel Raynaud
Michel Raynaud (; 16 June 1938 – 10 March 2018[ Décès de Michel Raynaud](_blank)
So ...
: '' Courbes semi-stables and groupe fondamental en géométrie algébrique '' (Luminy, December 1998), Birkhäuser 2000
* '' Introduction to compact Riemann Surfaces, Jacobean and Abelian Varieties. '' In:
Michel Waldschmidt
Michel Waldschmidt (born June 17, 1946 at Nancy, France) is a French mathematician, specializing in number theory, especially transcendental numbers.
Biography
Waldschmidt was educated at Lycée Henri Poincaré and the University of Nancy unti ...
,
Claude Itzykson
Claude Georges Itzykson, (11 April 1938 – 22 May 1995) was a French theoretical physicist who worked in quantum field theory and statistical mechanics.
Biography
Separated from his parents by World War II, his father was taken to a Na ...
, Jean-Marc Luck, Pierre Moussa (eds.): '' Number Theory and Physics. '' Les Houches 1989, Springer 1992
References
External links
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20th-century French mathematicians
21st-century French mathematicians
École Normale Supérieure alumni
Academic staff of Paris-Saclay University
Members of Academia Europaea
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
People from Neuilly-sur-Seine
1961 births
Living people