Pierre Pansu (born 13 July 1959) is a French
mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
History
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and a member of the
Arthur Besse group and a close collaborator of
Mikhail Gromov. He is a professor at the
Université Paris-Sud 11 and the
École Normale Supérieure
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* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
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in Paris. His main research field is geometry. His contribution to mathematics was celebrated by a double event (a conference and a workshop)
co-organized for his 60th birthday by the
Clay Mathematics Institute
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.
Pierre Pansu is the grandson of French physician Félix Esclangon, and the great grand-nephew of mathematician and astronomer
Ernest Esclangon
Ernest Benjamin Esclangon (17 March 1876 – 28 January 1954) was a French astronomer and mathematician.
Born in Mison, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, in 1895 he started to study mathematics at the École Normale Supérieure, graduating in 1898. Look ...
, inventor of the
talking clock
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, and brother of Robert Pansu, chemist and research director at
CNRS
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In 2016, it employed 31,637 ...
.
See also
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Metric Structures for Riemannian and Non-Riemannian Spaces
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Pansu derivative In mathematics, the Pansu derivative is a derivative on a Carnot group, introduced by . A Carnot group G admits a one-parameter family of dilations, \delta_s\colon G\to G. If G_1 and G_2 are Carnot groups, then the Pansu derivative of a function f ...
References
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Georges Charpak
Georges Charpak (; born Jerzy Charpak, 1 August 1924 – 29 September 2010) was a Polish-born French physicist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992.
Life
Georges Charpak was born Jerzy Charpak to Jewish parents, Anna (Szapiro) and ...
2013
Académie des Sciences
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,
France
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.
External links
Pansu's website at Université Paris-Sud 11*
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References
1959 births
Living people
20th-century French mathematicians
21st-century French mathematicians
Academic staff of the École Normale Supérieure
International Mathematical Olympiad participants
Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research
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