Michelle Schatzman (1949–2010) was a French

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, specializing in

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, who combined research as a

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research director and teaching as a professor at the

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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

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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

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. She became a professor at the

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

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 The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon B ...

(2008). * Prize of M me Claude Berthault awarded by the

French Academy of Sciences The French Academy of Sciences (French: ''Académie des sciences'') is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV of France, Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French Scientific me ...

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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