Bernard Malgrange

Bernard Malgrange
Malgrange in 2007
Born(1928-07-06)6 July 1928
Paris, France
Died5 January 2024(2024-01-05) (aged 95)
Grenoble
NationalityFrench
Alma materUniversité Henri Poincaré
Known forEhrenpreis–Malgrange theorem
Malgrange preparation theorem
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Doctoral advisorLaurent Schwartz
Doctoral studentsM. Salah Baouendi

Bernard Malgrange (6 July 1928 – 5 January 2024) was a French mathematician who worked on differential equations and singularity theory. He proved the Ehrenpreis–Malgrange theorem and the Malgrange preparation theorem, essential for the classification theorem of the elementary catastrophes of René Thom. He received his Ph.D. from Université Henri Poincaré (Nancy 1) in 1955. His advisor was Laurent Schwartz. He was elected to the Académie des sciences in 1988. In 2012 he gave the Łojasiewicz Lecture (on "Differential algebraic groups") at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.[1] Malgrange died on 5 January 2024, at the age of 95.[2]

Publications

  • Ideals of differentiable functions (Oxford University Press, 1966)
  • Équations différentielles à coefficients polynomiaux, Progress in Mathematics (Birkhäuser, 1991).

References

  1. ^ "2012 Lecture – Institute of Mathematics of the Jagiellonian University". www.im.uj.edu.pl. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
  2. ^ "Décès De Bernard Malgrange". SMF. 5 January 2024. Retrieved 7 January 2024.

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