Étienne Fouvry (, born 1953) is a French mathematician working primarily in

analytic number theory In mathematics, analytic number theory is a branch of number theory that uses methods from mathematical analysis to solve problems about the integers. It is often said to have begun with Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet's 1837 introduction of Dir ...

. Fouvry defended his dissertation in 1981 at the

University of Bordeaux The University of Bordeaux (, ) is a public research university based in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. It has several campuses in the cities and towns of Bordeaux, Dax, Gradignan, Périgueux, Pessac, and Talence. There are al ...

under the joint direction of

Henryk Iwaniec Henryk Iwaniec (born October 9, 1947) is a Polish-American mathematician, and since 1987 a professor at Rutgers University. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Polish Academy of Sciences. He has made important contribu ...

and Jean-Marc Deshouillers. He is an emeritus professor at

Paris-Saclay University Paris-Saclay University (, ) is a combined technological research institute and public research university in Orsay, France. Paris-Saclay was established in 2019 after the merger of four technical ''grandes écoles,'' as well as several technol ...

and the 2021 recipient of the

Sophie Germain Prize The Sophie Germain Prize (in French: ''Prix Sophie Germain'') is an annual mathematics prize awarded by the French Academy of Sciences to researchers who have carried out fundamental research in mathematics. The award has been conferred every year ...

. In 1985, Fouvry showed that the first case of

Fermat's Last Theorem In number theory, Fermat's Last Theorem (sometimes called Fermat's conjecture, especially in older texts) states that no three positive number, positive integers , , and satisfy the equation for any integer value of greater than . The cases ...

is true for infinitely many primes.

References

External links

Videos of Étienne Fouvry
in the AV-Portal of the

German National Library of Science and Technology The German National Library of Science and Technology (), abbreviated TIB, is the national library of the Federal Republic of Germany for all fields of engineering, technology, and the natural sciences. It is jointly funded by the Federal Mini ...

French mathematicians Academic staff of Paris-Sud University Living people French number theorists École Normale Supérieure alumni 1953 births {{France-mathematician-stub