Pierre Pansu | |
Birth Date: | 13 July 1959 |
Birth Place: | Lyon, France |
Nationality: | French |
Fields: | Mathematics |
Workplaces: | École Normale Supérieure Université Paris-Sud 11 |
Alma Mater: | École Normale Supérieure |
Thesis Title: | Géométrie du groupe de Heisenberg |
Thesis Url: | https://www.cmls.polytechnique.fr/xups/textes-provisoires18/pansu.pdf |
Thesis Year: | 1982 |
Doctoral Advisor: | Marcel Berger |
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)[1] co-organized for his 60th birthday by the Clay Mathematics Institute.
Pierre Pansu is the grandson of French physician, 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.