Jacques-Louis Lions

Jacques-Louis Lions
Lions in 1970
Born(1928-05-02)2 May 1928
Died17 May 2001(2001-05-17) (aged 73)
Alma materÉcole normale supérieure
University of Nancy
Known forAsymptotic homogenization
Interpolation space
Lion's theorem
Lions–Magenes lemma
Aubin–Lions lemma
Duvaut–Lions formulation
AwardsW. T. and Idalia Reid Prize (1998)
ForMemRS (1996)
Harvey Prize (1991)
Japan Prize (1991)
John von Neumann Prize (1986)
ICM Speaker (1958, 1970, 1974)
Peccot Lecture (1958)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsÉcole Polytechnique
Collège de France
Doctoral advisorLaurent Schwartz
Doctoral studentsAlain Bensoussan
Jean-Michel Bismut
Haïm Brezis
Erol Gelenbe
Roland Glowinski
Roger Temam

Jacques-Louis Lions (French: [ʒak lwi ljɔ̃ːs];[1] 2 May 1928 – 17 May 2001) was a French mathematician who made contributions to the theory of partial differential equations and to stochastic control, among other areas. He received the SIAM's John von Neumann Lecture prize in 1986 and numerous other distinctions.[2][3] Lions is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.[4]

  1. ^ CORE Fields Medal Talk: Pierre-Louis Lions on Mean Field Games
  2. ^ Jacques-Louis Lions. Casinapioiv.va. Retrieved on 9 May 2016.
  3. ^ Jacques-Louis LIONS. isces.org
  4. ^ Thomson ISI. "Lions, Jacques-Louis, ISI Highly Cited Researchers". Retrieved 20 June 2009.