Pierre Pansu

Pierre Pansu
Born (1959-07-13) 13 July 1959 (age 67)
Lyon, France
EducationÉcole Normale Supérieure
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
WorkplacesÉcole Normale Supérieure
Université Paris-Sud 11
ThesisGéométrie du groupe de Heisenberg (1982)
Marcel Berger
Other academic advisors
Mikhail Gromov
Doctoral students
Cornelia Druțu

Pierre Pansu (born 13 July 1959) is a French mathematician and a member of the Arthur Besse group and a close collaborator of Mikhail Gromov. He is a professor at the Université Paris-Sud 11 and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. His main research field is geometry. His contribution to mathematics was celebrated by a double event (a conference and a workshop) co-organized for his 60th birthday by the Clay Mathematics Institute.

Pierre Pansu is the grandson of French physician Félix Esclangon [fr], and the great grand-nephew of mathematician and astronomer Ernest Esclangon, inventor of the talking clock, and brother of Robert Pansu, chemist and research director at CNRS.

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