Jacques Dixmier

Jacques Dixmier
Born24 May 1924 (1924-05-24) (age 100)
Alma materUniversity of Paris
Known forDixmier condition
Dixmier conjecture
Dixmier mapping
Dixmier problem
Dixmier trace
AwardsPrix de l'État (1962)
Prix Ampère (1976)
Leroy P. Steele Prize (1992)
Émile-Picard-Medaille (2001)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Paris
Thesis Étude sur les variétés et les opérateurs de Julia avec quelques applications[1]
Doctoral advisorGaston Julia
Doctoral studentsAlain Connes
Michel Duflo
Michèle Vergne
Nicole Berline

Jacques Dixmier (born 24 May 1924) is a French mathematician. He worked on operator algebras, especially C*-algebras, and wrote several of the standard reference books on them, and introduced the Dixmier trace and the Dixmier mapping.[2]

  1. ^ Jacques Dixmier at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ Turkevich, Ludmilla Buketoff; Turkevich, John, eds. (1968). Prominent Scientists of Continental Europe. American Elsevier Publishing Company. p. 43. ISBN 9780444000460. Retrieved 9 March 2021.