Michel Waldschmidt
Michel Waldschmidt is a French mathematician, specializing in number theory, especially transcendental numbers.Biography
Waldschmidt was educated at and the University of Nancy until 1968. In 1972 he defended his thesis, titled Indépendance algébrique de nombres transcendants and directed by Jean Fresnel, the University of Bordeaux, where he was research associate of CNRS in 1971–2. He was then a lecturer at Paris-Sud 11 University in 1972–3, then a lecturer at the University of Paris VI, where he is Professor since 1973. Waldschmidt was also a visiting professor at places including the École normale supérieure. He is a member of the.
Today, Michel Waldschmidt is an expert in the theory of transcendental numbers and diophantine approximations.
He was awarded the Albert Châtelet Prize in 1974, the CNRS Silver Medal in 1978, the Marquet Prize of Academy of Sciences in 1980 and the Special Award of the Hardy–Ramanujan Society in 1986.
From 2001 to 2004 he was president of the Mathematical Society of France. He is a member of several mathematical societies, including the EMS, the AMS and Ramanujan Mathematical Society.
He is interested in exchange programs for researchers and students and was, from 2005 to 2009, Vice President CIMPA, formed in Nice for promote international cooperation. He participated in the coordination of cooperation in mathematics of France with many countries, including India and Middle East.Selected publications
- Diophantine approximation on linear algebraic groups. Springer, 2000
- Nombres transcendants, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol. 402, 1974, Springer
- Nombres transcendants et groupes algébriques, Astérisque, vol. 69/70, 1979, 2e tirage 1987
- Transcendence Methods, Queens Papers in Pure and Applied Mathematics, 1979
- With J.-M. Luck, P. Moussa, C. Itzykson , From Number Theory to Physics, 1995
