Jean-François Le Gall

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Jean-François Le Gall
University of Paris-Sud in Orsay
Doctoral advisorMarc Yor
Doctoral studentsWendelin Werner

Jean-François Le Gall (born 15 November 1959) is a French mathematician working in areas of

University of Paris-Sud in Orsay
and is a senior member of the Institut universitaire de France. He was elected to French academy of sciences, December 2013.

He was awarded the Rollo Davidson Prize in 1986,[2] the Loève Prize in 1997,[2] and the Fermat Prize in 2005.[3] He was the thesis advisor of at least 11 students including Wendelin Werner.[1] For 2019 he received the Wolf Prize in Mathematics.[4][5] and for 2021 he was awarded the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences.[6]

Books

  • Le Gall, Jean-François, Spatial branching processes, random snakes and partial differential equations. Lectures in Mathematics ETH Zürich. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel (1999). 163 pp.
  • Le Gall, Jean-François, Brownian Motion, Martingales, and Stochastic Calculus. Graduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer International Publishing Switzerland (2016).

References

  1. ^ a b Jean-François Le Gall at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
  2. ^ a b Evans, Steven N.; Le Cam, Lucien. "Le Gall Receives Loève Prize". Statistics Department, University of California, Berkeley. Archived from the original on 14 November 2003. Retrieved 15 February 2010.
  3. ^ Mathematics People: Colmez and Le Gall Awarded Fermat Prize, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Volume 53, Number 2. 2006.
  4. ^ Wolf Prize 2019 - Jerusalem Post
  5. ^ "Wolf Prize 2019". Archived from the original on 20 March 2023. Retrieved 24 February 2022.
  6. ^ BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award 2021