Pierre Pansu | |
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| Born | 13 July 1959 Lyon, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Alma mater | École Normale Supérieure |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | École Normale Supérieure Université Paris-Sud 11 |
| Thesis | Géométrie du groupe de Heisenberg (1982) |
| Doctoral advisor | Marcel Berger |
| Other academic advisors | Mikhail Gromov |
| Doctoral students | Cornelia Druțu [1] |
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)[2] co-organized for his 60th birthday by the Clay Mathematics Institute.
Pierre Pansu is the grandson of French physician Félix Esclangon, 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.