Jean Ginibre (4 March 1938 — 26 March 2020) was a French
mathematical physicist
Mathematical physics refers to the development of mathematical methods for application to problems in physics. The ''Journal of Mathematical Physics'' defines the field as "the application of mathematics to problems in physics and the developmen ...
. He is known for his contributions to
random matrix theory (see
circular law In probability theory, more specifically the study of random matrices, the circular law concerns the distribution of eigenvalues of an random matrix with independent and identically distributed entries in the limit
.
It asserts that for any sequ ...
),
statistical mechanics (see
FKG inequality,
Ginibre inequality), and
partial differential equations
In mathematics, a partial differential equation (PDE) is an equation which imposes relations between the various partial derivatives of a multivariable function.
The function is often thought of as an "unknown" to be solved for, similarly to ...
. With Martine Le Berre and
Yves Pomeau
Yves Pomeau, born in 1942, is a French mathematician and physicist, emeritus research director at the CNRS and corresponding member of the French Academy of sciences. He was one of the founders of thLaboratoire de Physique Statistique, École No ...
, he provided a kinetic theory for the emission of photons by an atom maintained in an excited state by an intense field that creates Rabi oscillations. He received the
Paul Langevin Prize in 1969.
Jean Ginibre was Emeritus Professor at
Paris-Sud 11 University
Paris-Sud University (French: ''Université Paris-Sud''), also known as University of Paris — XI (or as Université d'Orsay before 1971), was a French research university distributed among several campuses in the southern suburbs of Paris, in ...
. He directed the thesis of
Monique Combescure.
See also
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Classical XY model
References
1938 births
2020 deaths
French mathematicians
French physicists
Mathematical physicists
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