Jean-Pierre Bourguignon - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Jean-Pierre Bourguignon (born 21 July 1947) is a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

mathematician

Mathematician

A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....

, working in the field of differential geometry.

He was president of the Société Mathématique de France

Société Mathématique de France

The Société Mathématique de France is the main professional society of French mathematicians.The society was founded in 1872 by Émile Lemoine and is one of the oldest mathematical societies in existence...

from 1990 to 1992. From 1995 to 1998 he was president of the European Mathematical Society

European Mathematical Society

The European Mathematical Society is a European organization dedicated to the development of mathematics in Europe. Its members are different mathematical societies in Europe, academic institutions and individual mathematicians...

. Since 1994 he is the director of the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques

Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques

The Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques is a French institute supporting advanced research in mathematics and theoretical physics...

near Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

External links

http://www.the-academy-of-europe.org/ae/User/Bourguignon_Jean-Pierre

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