Jean-Michel Bismut

For the chemical element, see bismuth.
Jean-Michel Bismut

Jean-Michel Bismut in 2004
(photo from MFO)
Born (1948-02-26) 26 February 1948
Lisbon, Portugal
Nationality French
Fields Mathematics
Institutions Université Paris-Sud
Alma mater Ecole Polytechnique
Doctoral advisor Jacques-Louis Lions
Jacques Neveu
Doctoral students Patrick Cattiaux
Kai Köhler
Known for Probabilistic proof of Atiyah-Singer index theorem
Notable awards Prix Ampère (French Academy of Sciences), 1990

Jean-Michel Bismut (born 26 February 1948) is a French mathematician who has been a Professor at the Université Paris-Sud since 1981.[1]

His early work was related to stochastic differential equations, stochastic control, and Malliavin calculus, to which he made fundamental contributions, giving a probabilistic proof of Hörmander's theorem. He found a heat equation proof for the Atiyah–Singer index theorem. In 1990 he was awarded the Prix Ampere of the Academy of Sciences. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in the summer of 1984.[2] He was elected as a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1991.

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