Martine Queffélec (née Joublin, born 1949) is a French mathematician associated with the

University of Lille The University of Lille (, abbreviated as ULille, UDL or univ-lille) is a French public research university based in Lille, Hauts-de-France. It has its origins in the University of Douai (1559), and resulted from the merger of three universities ...

and known for her research on

continued fraction A continued fraction is a mathematical expression that can be written as a fraction with a denominator that is a sum that contains another simple or continued fraction. Depending on whether this iteration terminates with a simple fraction or not, ...

Diophantine approximation In number theory, the study of Diophantine approximation deals with the approximation of real numbers by rational numbers. It is named after Diophantus of Alexandria. The first problem was to know how well a real number can be approximated ...

combinatorics on words Combinatorics on words is a fairly new field of mathematics, branching from combinatorics, which focuses on the study of words and formal languages. The subject looks at letters or symbols, and the sequences they form. Combinatorics on words ...

L-system An L-system or Lindenmayer system is a parallel rewriting system and a type of formal grammar. An L-system consists of an alphabet of symbols that can be used to make strings, a collection of production rules that expand each symbol into some ...

s, and related topics in

dynamical system In mathematics, a dynamical system is a system in which a Function (mathematics), function describes the time dependence of a Point (geometry), point in an ambient space, such as in a parametric curve. Examples include the mathematical models ...

Education and career

Queffélec defended her doctoral dissertation in 1984. By 1987, she was working at the

Université Sorbonne Paris Nord Sorbonne Paris North University () is a public university based in Paris, France. It is one of the thirteen universities that succeeded the University of Paris in 1968. It is a multidisciplinary university located in north of Paris, in the munici ...

; she moved to the Lille University of Science and Technology in 1993.

Books

Queffélec is the author of the book ''Substitution Dynamical Systems – Spectral Analysis'' (Springer,

Lecture Notes in Mathematics ''Lecture Notes in Mathematics'' is a book series in the field of mathematics, including articles related to both research and teaching. It was established in 1964 and was edited by A. Dold, Heidelberg and B. Eckmann, Zürich. Its publisher is Sp ...

1294, 1987; 2nd ed., 2010). She is the co-author, with Hervé Queffélec, of ''Diophantine Approximation and Dirichlet Series'' (Harish-Chandra Research Institute Lecture Notes 2, 2013).

Recognition

In 2011, the Lille University of Science and Technology hosted a conference "Analyse 2011" in honor of both Martine and Hervé Queffélec.

Personal life and family

Queffélec's husband, mathematician Hervé Queffélec, is a son of French writer Henri Queffélec (1910–1992), and the brother of pianist

Anne Queffélec Anne Queffélec (born 17 January 1948) is a French classical pianist, born in Paris. Biography Anne Queffélec is the daughter of Henri Queffélec and sister of Yann Queffélec, both noted writers. Her brother Hervé Queffélec is a mathema ...

and novelist

Yann Queffélec Yann Queffélec (born 4 September 1949 in Paris) is a French author who won the Prix Goncourt The Prix Goncourt ( , "The Goncourt Prize") is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imag ...

References

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