Étienne Fouvry

Étienne Fouvry

Fouvry in 1986
Nationality  France
Fields Mathematics
Institutions University of Paris-Sud
Alma mater University of Bordeaux
Thesis Repartitions des suites dans les progressions arithmetiques (1981)
Doctoral advisors Jean-Marc Deshouillers, Henryk Iwaniec
Website
www.math.u-psud.fr/~fouvry/

Étienne Fouvry is a French mathematician working primarily in analytic number theory.

In 1985, Fouvry showed that the first case of Fermat's last theorem is true for infinitely many primes.[1]

References

  1. Fouvry, Étienne (1985). "Théorème de Brun-Titchmarsh: application au théorème de Fermat" [The Brun-Titchmarsh theorem: application to the Fermat theorem]. Invent. Math. (in French) 79 (2): 383–407. doi:10.1007/BF01388980. MR 0778134.


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