Alain Connes
Alain Connes (born April 1, 1947) is a French mathematician, currently Professor at the College de France (Paris, France), IHES (Bures-sur-Yvette, France) and Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee). He is a specialist in Von Neumann algebras and succeeded in classifying injective factors.
The remarkable links between this subject, the tools he and others devised to tackle the problem and other subjects in theoretical physics, particle physics, and differential geometry, made him emphasize Noncommutative geometry (which is also the title of his major book to date).
Alain Connes was awarded the Fields Medal in 1982, the Crafoord Prize in 2001 and the gold medal of the CNRS in 2004. He is a member of several foreign academies and societies, including French Academy of Sciences, Danish Academy of Sciences, Norwegian Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, and US National Academy of Sciences.
See also
External links
- Alain Connes Official Web Site
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Alain Connes", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- Alain Connes at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
