Pierre Pansu Explained

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.

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  1. Web site: Pansu's Fest. Enrico Le Donne.