Philibert Nang (born 1967) is a

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ese mathematician known for his work in

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(

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). Nang won the 2011

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for his research in mathematics, and because he conducted it in

the ICTP declared: "It is hoped that his example will inspire other young African mathematicians working at the highest levels while based in Africa." He was awarded the African Mathematics Millennium Science Initiative-Phillip Griffiths Prize in 2017. He obtained his Ph.D. from the

Pierre and Marie Curie University Pierre and Marie Curie University (french: link=no, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, UPMC), also known as Paris 6, was a public university, public research university in Paris, France, from 1971 to 2017. The university was located on the Jussi ...

in 1996 under the supervision of

Louis Boutet de Monvel Louis Boutet de Monvel (22 June 1941 – 25 December 2014) was a French mathematician who worked on functional analysis. He was a student of Laurent Schwartz in Paris and was professor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University. He was married to ...

. Nang currently serves as president of the

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. He has been a visiting member at the

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and at the

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) is a public deemed research university located in Mumbai, India that is dedicated to basic research in mathematics and the sciences. It is a Deemed University and works under the umbrella of the D ...

. Currently he is employed as

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University of Pretoria The University of Pretoria ( af, Universiteit van Pretoria, nso, Yunibesithi ya Pretoria) is a multi-campus public university, public research university in Pretoria, the administrative and de facto capital of South Africa. The university was ...

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Selected publications

*"On the classification of regular holonomic D-modules on skew-symmetric matrices", ''

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'', Volume 356, Issue 1, 2012, pp. 115–132. *"D-modules associated to the determinantal singularities", ''Proc. Japan Acad. Ser. A Math. Sci.'', Volume 80, Number 5, 2004, pp. 74–78. *"D-modules associated to the group of similitudes", ''Publ. Res. I. Math. Sci.'', Volume 35, Number 2, 1999, pp. 223–247.

References

Gabonese mathematicians Algebraists 1967 births Living people Pierre and Marie Curie University alumni Academic staff of the University of Pretoria 21st-century Gabonese people {{Gabon-bio-stub