Gilles Pisier

Gilles Jean Georges Pisier ( born November 18, 1950 in Nouméa, New Caledonia ) is a French mathematician who made major contributions has made to functional analysis.

Life

Pisier attended the Lycée Louis -le- Grand in Paris and studied from 1969 to 1972 at the École Polytechnique in Palaiseau mathematics. In 1972 he received his DEA 's degree at the University of Paris VI, then was a researcher at the CNRS and graduated in 1977 with honors in Laurent Schwartz at the University of Paris VII in 1981 he was appointed professor of mathematics at the University of Paris VI ( from 1991 as Professeur de Classe Exceptionnelle ). Since 1985 he has been Professor of Mathematics at Texas A & M University. He has been a visiting professor at IHES ( 1984/85, 1990) and the Institute for Advanced Study ( 1988).

His older sister, Marie -France Pisier was a well-known actress, screenwriter and director.

Services

Pisier deals with functional analysis ( geometry of Banach spaces, interpolation in Banach spaces and solution of an open problem by Alexander Grothendieck on tensor products of Banach spaces, taking one named after him space, the Pisier - space, introduced ), operator algebras, spaces of operators, harmonic analysis (Random Fourier series, some with Michael Marcus ) and probability theory ( random processes in Banach spaces, Martingale ). He has published more than 100 scientific papers and 8 reference books.

Honors

1979 Pisier the Salem Prize was awarded in 1997 he was awarded the Ostrowski Prize, he was awarded the Stefan Banach Medal 2001. Since 1994 he is a corresponding member, and since 2002 a full member of the Académie des Sciences and nonresident since 2005 Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 1981 he held the Cours Peccot the College de France. In 1992 he received the Grand Prize of the French Academy of Sciences and in 1982 the Prix Carriére.

In 1998 he gave a plenary lecture at the ICM in Berlin (Operator spaces and similarity problems ), 1983 he was invited speaker at the ICM in Warsaw (finite rank Projections on Banach spaces and a conjecture of Grothendieck ).

He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Writings

• Michael Marcus: Random Fourier Series with applications to harmonic analysis, Annals of Mathematics, 1981
• Factorization of linear operators and geometry of Banach spaces, American Mathematical Society, 1986
• The operator Hilbert space OH, complex interpolation and tensor norms, Memoirs AMS, 1996
• The volume of convex bodies and Banach Space Geometry. Cambridge University Press, 1989
• Similarity problems and completely Call bounded maps. Springer, Lecture Notes in Mathematics vol 1618, 1996, 2001
• An introduction to the theory of operator spaces. Cambridge University Press, 2002