Jean Céa (8 February 1932 – 9 January 2024) was a French mathematician. Born to Spanish immigrants in

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, Algeria (he learnt French in school), he studied at the Ecole normale d'instituteurs d'Oran and the

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, obtaining his Ph.D. in 1964 with his dissertation ''Approximation variationnelle des problèmes aux limites''. In his thesis he proved the Céa's lemma, an important result related to error estimation in the

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. Céa was emeritus professor at the

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and member of the

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. In 1975 he was awarded the

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. Céa died on 9 January 2024 in

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* ''Optimisation: théorie et algorithmes'', Dunod 1971 * ''Lectures on optimization: theory and algorithms'', Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Springer 1978
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* ''Approximation et méthodes itératives de résolution d'inéquations variationnelles et de problèmes non linéaires'', Institut de recherche d'information et d'automatique (IRIA), Rocquencourt 1974 * ''Une vie de mathématicien''. Mes émerveillements, Harmattan 2010 * ''Jeunes pousses en folie'', Harmattan 2012 (Roman)

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