Pierre Dolbeault (October 10, 1924 – June 12, 2015) was 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 On ...

. Dolbeault studied with

Henri Cartan Henri Paul Cartan (; 8 July 1904 – 13 August 2008) was a French mathematician who made substantial contributions to algebraic topology. He was the son of the mathematician Élie Cartan, nephew of mathematician Anna Cartan, oldest brother of co ...

and graduated in 1944 from the

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. He completed his

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at the

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in 1955 under the supervision of Cartan, with a dissertation titled ''Formes différentielles et cohomologie sur une variété analytique complexe''. He taught in the 1950s at the University of Montpellier and the University of Bordeaux, and later at 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 ...

( Jussieu). Together with Pierre Lelong and

Henri Skoda Henri Skoda (born 1945) is a French mathematician, specializing in the analysis of several complex variables. Skoda studied from 1964 at l'École normale supérieure and received there in 1967 his agrégation in mathematics. He received in 1972 ...

he held an Analysis seminar in

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Dolbeault cohomology In mathematics, in particular in algebraic geometry and differential geometry, Dolbeault cohomology (named after Pierre Dolbeault) is an analog of de Rham cohomology for complex manifolds. Let ''M'' be a complex manifold. Then the Dolbeault cohom ...

is named after him, and so is the Dolbeault theorem.

External links

* Pierre Dolbeault'
professional webpage
*
On the Mathematical Works of Pierre Dolbeault
, '' EMS Newsletter'', March 2016 * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dolbeault, Pierre 1924 births 2015 deaths 20th-century French mathematicians 21st-century French mathematicians École Normale Supérieure alumni Complex analysts Mathematical analysts Academic staff of the University of Montpellier Academic staff of the University of Bordeaux Academic staff of Pierre and Marie Curie University