Évariste Sanchez-Palencia (born 1941 in
Madrid
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), is a French researcher in theoretical mechanics, applied mathematics and epistemology, Emeritus Research Director at the
CNRS
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. He is a member of the
French Academy of Sciences
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since 12 November 2001. He is also a member of the board of the union rationalist.
Distinction and prizes
* 1981,
CNRS Silver Medal
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(Physics for Engineers)
* 1987, Elected Corresponding Member of the
French Academy of Sciences
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(Division of Mechanical Sciences).
* 1995, Award
French Institute of Petroleum
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, awarded by the French Academy of Sciences.
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* 2001, elected Full Member of the French Academy of Sciences.
Bibliography
In mechanics and mathematics
* ''Non homogeneous media and vibration theory, "Lecture notes in Physics" 127'', Springer, Berlin, 398 pages, 1980; translated in Russian, MIR 1984.”
* with D. Leguillon, ''Computation of singular solutions in elliptic problems and elasticity'', Éditions Masson - John Wiley, Paris - New York, 200 pages, 1987
* with J. Sanchez-Hubert, ''Vibration and coupling of continuous systems. Asymptotic methods'', Springer
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, Berlin, 421 pages, 1989
* with J. Sanchez-Hubert, ''Introduction aux méthodes asymptotiques et à l'homogénéisation. Application à la Mécanique des milieux continus'', Éditions Masson, Paris (pour la Maîtrise, dirigée par P. G. Paris (1992), 266 pages
* with Sanchez-Hubert, ''Coques élastiques minces: Propriétés asymptotiques'', Éditions Masson, Paris,. (1997), 376 pages.
* with O. Millet and F. Béchet ''Singular problems in shell theory. Computing and asymptotics'', Springer
Springer or springers may refer to:
Publishers
* Springer Science+Business Media, aka Springer International Publishing, a worldwide publishing group founded in 1842 in Germany formerly known as Springer-Verlag.
** Springer Nature, a multinationa ...
, Berlin, Heidelberg, 265 pages (2010)
In epistemology and history of sciences
* ''Dialectic walk in the sciences'', KDP, August 2023, , 454 pages: translated from the original in French ''Promenade dialectique dans les sciences'', Hermann 2012. (); translated in Spanish, Ed.Univ.Cantabria 2015; translated in Italian, UNICOPLI 2018.
* Several contributions in ''Science et culture. Repéres pour une culture scientifique commune'' Edited by J. Haissinski and H. Langevin-Joliot, Apogée/Espace des sciences, Rennes (2015)
In epistemology and dynamical systems
* ''Dialectique dans les sciences et systèmes dynamiques'', with Jean-Pierre Françoise, Le Temps des Cerises (publishers), Essais Scientifiques, 240 pages, January 2023, .
Main research topics
(1970-1985) Homogenization method for continuous media with fine structure.
(1985-2010) Asymptotic study and numerical computation of very thin elastic shells.
(From 2005) epistemology, along the axes:
-Essentially approximate nature and evolution of scientific knowledge.
-Dynamical systems theory provides an intelligible basis to dialectic movement of nature (dynamic interaction, constructive aspects of evolution, etc.)
References
*
in l'académie des sciences
Footnotes
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Members of the French Academy of Sciences
20th-century French mathematicians
Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research