The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters announced today that it would award the 2008 Abel Prize to John G. Thompson, a professor of mathematics at the University of Florida, and Jacques Tits, an ...

Largely unknown today, Bourbaki is likely the last mathematician to master nearly all aspects of the field. A consummate collaborator, he made fundamental contributions to important mathematical ...

A French mathematician known for his pioneering work on a theory used for applications ranging from image compression to the detection of gravitational waves from the merging of black holes has earned ...

Yves Meyer, a French Jewish mathematician, won the Abel Prize on Tuesday for his work on the “wavelet theory,” which has been applied in data compression, noise reduction, medical imaging and digital ...

Francois Baccelli joins the University of Texas at Austin this fall as the first Simons Chair in Mathematics and Electrical and Computer Engineering AUSTIN, Texas - Renowned French mathematician and ...

This is the first time that the CNRS has opened a UMI in the UK and it will have equal status to a CNRS laboratory in France. It represents the highest level of collaboration and will establish a long ...

Until this year, Cédric Villani, Ph.D., was a world-class scholar, a man affectionately nicknamed “the Lady Gaga of French Mathematicians,” and the flamboyantly dressed genius behind the TED talk, ...

Traditionally, science has been the counterargument for the existence of a divine creator. However, French mathematicians Olivier Bonnassies and Michel-Yves Bollore now say that science 'has become ...

There’s an old joke about the French: A guy gives a plan to a Frenchman. He looks at it, shakes his head and says, “Well, that probably works fine in practice, but how does it work in theory?” It’s a ...

A French mathematician known for his pioneering work on a theory used for applications ranging from image compression to the detection of gravitational waves from the merging of black holes has earned ...