| Jean-Marie Souriau | |
|---|---|
| Born | 3 June 1922 |
| Nationality | France |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Provence |
| Alma mater | ONERA École Normale Supérieure |
| Doctoral advisor | Joseph Pérès André Lichnerowicz |
| Doctoral students | Paul Donato Christian Duval Jimmy Elhadad Henry-Hugues Fliche Péter Horváthy Patrick Iglesias Roland Triay François Ziegler |
Jean-Marie Souriau (born 3 June 1922) is a French mathematician, known for works in symplectic geometry, in which he is one of the pioneers. He has published several works, a treatise on relativity [Sou64b] and a treatise on mechanics: [Sou70]. He has developed the symplectic aspects of classical and quantum mechanics. His work includes the first geometric interpretation of spin, and many important concepts, such as: the coadjoint action of a group on its moment space, the moment map, prequantization (geometric quantization), the classification of the homogeneous symplectic manifolds, diffeological spaces and many others.
He was educated at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, and spent most of his career as a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Provence in Marseille.
