Mathematician:Alain Connes

Mathematician

French mathematician and theoretical physicist, known for his contributions to the study of operator algebras and noncommutative geometry.

Fields Medal

Alain Connes was awarded a Fields Medal in $\text {1982}$ at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Warsaw, Poland:

Contributed to the theory of operator algebras, particularly the general classification and structure theorem of factors of type $\text {III}$, classification of automorphisms of the hyperfinite factor, classification of injective factors, and applications of the theory of $C^*$-algebras to foliations and differential geometry in general.

Nationality

French

History

• Born: 1 April 1947 in Draguignan, Var, France

Theorems and Definitions

• Baum-Connes Conjecture (with Paul Frank Baum)

Publications

• 2001: Géométrie non-commutative

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Alain Connes": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive