Jean-Michel Bismut
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Jean-Michel Bismut is a French
mathematician who has been a Professor at the Université Paris-Sud since 1981.
He found a heat equation
proof for the Atiyah–Singer index theorem
. In 1990 he was awarded the Prix Ampere
of the Academy of Sciences. He was elected as a member of the French Academy of Sciences
in 1991.
French people
The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
mathematician who has been a Professor at the Université Paris-Sud since 1981.
He found a heat equation
Heat equation
The heat equation is an important partial differential equation which describes the distribution of heat in a given region over time...
proof for the Atiyah–Singer index theorem
Atiyah–Singer index theorem
In differential geometry, the Atiyah–Singer index theorem, proved by , states that for an elliptic differential operator on a compact manifold, the analytical index is equal to the topological index...
. In 1990 he was awarded the Prix Ampere
André-Marie Ampère
André-Marie Ampère was a French physicist and mathematician who is generally regarded as one of the main discoverers of electromagnetism. The SI unit of measurement of electric current, the ampere, is named after him....
of the Academy of Sciences. He was elected as a member of the French Academy of Sciences
French Academy of Sciences
The French Academy of Sciences is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research...
in 1991.