Arnaud Beauville | |
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Born | 1947 (age 64–65) Paris |
Nationality | French |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Nice Sophia Antipolis Paris-Sud 11 University University of Angers |
Alma mater | Paris Diderot University |
Doctoral advisor | Jean-Louis Verdier |
Doctoral students | Olivier Debarre Yves Laszlo Christian Pauly Claire Voisin |
Arnaud Beauville (born 1947 in Paris) is a French mathematician, whose research interest is algebraic geometry.
Beauville earned his doctorate from Paris Diderot University in 1977, with a thesis regarding Prym varieties and the Schottky problem, under supervision of Jean-Louis Verdier.
He has been a Professor at the Université Paris-Sud, then Director of the Mathematics Department at the École Normale Supérieure. He is currently Professor emeritus at the Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis.
He has had 25 Ph.D. students, among them Claire Voisin, Olivier Debarre, Yves Laszlo.