Christophe Soulé

Christophe Soulé ( * 1951 ) is a French mathematician who deals among other things with arithmetic algebraic geometry and number theory.

Soulé studied from 1970 at the École Normale Superieure. He was from 1974 scientists ( Attaché de Recherche ) at the CNRS under Roger Godement and in 1978 received his doctorate at the University of Paris by Max Karoubi ( and Roger Godement ) on the theory of the ring of integers in number fields and etale cohomology. In 1980, he was Chargé de Recherche at the CNRS Directeur de Recherches and from 1986. From 1984 he was a visiting scientist at the IHES. In 1989 he was a visiting professor at Harvard University and in 1998 at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge.

Soulé dealt with arithmetic groups, theory and Arakelow geometry in the arithmetic algebraic geometry, where he collaborated with Jean -Michel bismuth and Henri Gillet and proved a Riemann -Roch theorem.

In 1979 he was awarded the Bronze Medal of the CNRS. He's since 1997 and since 2001, corresponding member of the French Academy of Sciences ( Académie des sciences ). In 1983 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Warsaw (K- théorie et zeros aux fonctions de points entiers zeta). In 1985 he received the Prix J. Ponti of the French Academy of Sciences and in 1993 the Prix Ampere.

His PhD is one of Bruno Kahn.

Writings

• With Jürg Kramer, D. Abramovich, J.-F. Burnol Lectures on Arakelov Geometry. Cambridge University Press 1992.
• Introduction to Arithmetic Groups, in Pierre Cartier, among others Frontiers in Number Theory, Physics and Geometry, Volume 2, Springer Verlag 2007