Michèle Raynaud (born Michèle Chaumartin;
) 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
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, who works on
algebraic geometry
Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics, classically studying zeros of multivariate polynomials. Modern algebraic geometry is based on the use of abstract algebraic techniques, mainly from commutative algebra, for solving geometrical ...
and who worked with
Alexandre Grothendieck in Paris in the 1960s at the
Institut des hautes études scientifiques (IHÉS).
Biography
Raynaud was a member of the
séminaire de géométrie algébrique du Bois Marie
In mathematics, the ''Séminaire de Géométrie Algébrique du Bois Marie'' (''SGA'') was an influential seminar run by Alexander Grothendieck. It was a unique phenomenon of research and publication outside of the main mathematical journals that r ...
(SGA) 1 and 2 and obtained her doctorate in 1972, supervised by Grothendieck at
Paris Diderot 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 ...
. Her thesis was entitled ''Théorèmes de Lefschetz en cohomologie cohérente et en cohomologie étale''.
Grothendieck wrote about her doctoral thesis in
''Récoltes et Semailles'' (p.168 Chapitre 8.1.) describing it as original, entirely independent, and a major work.
Michèle Raynaud was married to the mathematician
Michel Raynaud
Michel Raynaud (; 16 June 1938 – 10 March 2018[ Décès de Michel Raynaud](_blank)
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who was also a member of the Grothendieck school.
Publications
* ''Théorèmes de Lefschetz en cohomologie cohérente et en cohomologie étale'', Bull. Soc. Math. France, Memoirs Nr. 41, 1975
* ''Théorèmes de Lefschetz en cohomologie étale des faisceaux en groupes non nécessairement commutatifs''. C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris Sér. A-B 270 1970
* ''Théorème de représentabilité relative sur le foncteur de Picard''
* ''Schémas en groupes''. Séminaire de l'Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques
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Notes and references
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1938 births
20th-century French mathematicians
21st-century French mathematicians
Algebraic geometers
Living people