Arnaud Beauville | |
Birth Date: | 10 May 1947 |
Birth Place: | Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris, France |
Nationality: | French |
Fields: | Mathematics |
Workplaces: | University of Nice Sophia Antipolis Paris-Sud 11 University University of Angers |
Alma Mater: | Paris Diderot University |
Doctoral Advisor: | Jean-Louis Verdier |
Doctoral Students: | Olivier Debarre Yves Laszlo Claire Voisin |
Arnaud Beauville (born 10 May 1947[1]) is a French mathematician, whose research interest is algebraic geometry.
Beauville earned his doctorate from Paris Diderot University in 1977, with a thesis regarding Prym varieties and the Schottky problem, under supervision of Jean-Louis Verdier.
He has been a professor at the Université Paris-Sud, then Director of the Mathematics Department at the École Normale Supérieure. He is currently Professor emeritus at the Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis.
Beauville was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in the summer of 1982.[2] He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1986 at Berkeley. He was a member of Bourbaki.[3] He has had 25 Ph.D. students, among them Claire Voisin, Olivier Debarre, Yves Laszlo.
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[4]