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François Labourie

François Labourie

French mathematician

François Labourie (born 15 December 1960) is a French mathematician who has made various contributions to geometry, including pseudoholomorphic curves, Anosov diffeomorphisms, and convex geometry. In a series of papers with Yves Benoist and Patrick Foulon, he solved a conjecture on Anosov flows in compact contact manifolds.

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He was educated at the École Normale Supérieure and Paris Diderot University, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1987 under supervision of Mikhail Gromov and Marcel Berger.[1] In 1992 he was awarded one of the inaugural prizes of the European Mathematical Society. In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    François Labourie at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. [2]
    Labourie, François (1998). "Large group actions on manifolds". Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. II. pp. 371–380.


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