Michelle Schatzman (1949–2010) was a French
mathematician
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History
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, specializing in
applied mathematics
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, who combined research as a
CNRS
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research director and teaching as a professor at the
Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
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.
Biography
Michelle Véra Schatzman was born in a secular Jewish family. Her father was French
astrophysicist Évry Schatzman
Evry Léon Schatzman (16 September 1920 – 25 April 2010) was a French scientist hailed as "the father of modern French astrophysics".
Background
His father, Benjamin Schatzman, was a dentist born in Tulcea, Romania, and emigrated at a young ag ...
, who also was president of the
Rationalist Union
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. Her mother Ruth Schatzman (née Fisher) was an associate of Russian in high schools in Lille and Paris, then a lecturer at the Paris VIII University.
Michelle Schatzman married Yves Pigier in 1975. They had two children, Claude Mangoubi (née Pigier), born in 1976 in Clamart, and René Pigier, born in 1983 in Paris. They divorced in 1988. Her daughter is married to Dan Mangoubi, an Israeli mathematician, a professor at the Albert Einstein Institute of the University of Jerusalem.
Education and career
Michelle Schatzman entered
École normale supérieure de jeunes filles
The ''École normale supérieure de jeunes filles'' (also, ''École normale supérieure de Sèvres'') was a French institute of higher education, in Sèvres, now a commune in the suburbs of Paris. The school educated girls only, especially as teac ...
in 1968. She obtained the aggregation and a PhD in 1971, under the leadership of
Haïm Brezis
Haïm Brezis (born 1 June 1944) is a French mathematician, who mainly works in functional analysis and partial differential equations.
Biography
Born in Riom-ès-Montagnes, Cantal, France. Brezis is the son of a Romanian immigrant father, who c ...
and a state doctorate in 1979 under the direction of
Jacques Louis Lions.
She was attaché then research assistant from 1972 to 1984 at the Laboratoire d'analyse numérique in Paris 6, now Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, then from spring 1981, at the Center of Applied Mathematics of the
École Polytechnique
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* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
* École, Savoi ...
.
She became a professor at the
Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
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in 1984, in the Lyon-Saint-Étienne digital analysis team, which in 1995 became the Laboratory for Applied Mathematics in Lyon (MAPLY), for eight years. This laboratory merged in 2005 with other laboratories in Lyons to found the .
She returned to the
CNRS
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In 2016, it employed 31,637 ...
in 2005 as a research director while continuing to teach, especially master students.
Over the years, she has written more than 70 scientific articles, many of them are still frequently quoted.
Awards
*
Knight of the Legion of Honor
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(2008).
* Prize of M me Claude Berthault awarded by the
French Academy of Sciences
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in 2006.
* A model of the vorticity density of superconductivity vortices proposed in 1996 is called the Chapman-Rubinstein-Schatzman model.
Publications
* ''Numerical Analysis, A Mathematical Approach'', first published by Masson in 1991 and reprinted by Dunod in 2001
* ''Numerical Analysis: A Mathematical Introduction'' (2002), Clarendon Press, Oxford. .
References
External links
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Confluentes Mathematici: Special issues in memory of Michèle Schatzman
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1949 births
2010 deaths
20th-century French mathematicians
Mathematical analysts
French Wikimedians
Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research