Max Karoubi
Max Karoubi (* 1938 in Tunis ) is a French mathematician who is a leading expert in the algebraic theory since the 1960s.
Karoubi attended from 1959 to 1963, the École normale supérieure. He received his doctorate in 1967 at the University of Paris with Henri Cartan on Clifford algebras and theory, while at the same time until 1963 he was a researcher at the CNRS in 1967, who worked with Alexandre Grothendieck and Cartan. After that he was Maître de conférences at the University of Strasbourg and from 1972 professor at the University of Paris VII- Denis Diderot. 1973 to 1989 he was also Maître de conférences at the École polytechnique. In 2007 he retired. He was a visiting professor at Princeton, among other things ( in 1968/69 at the Institute for Advanced Study ), Berkeley, Chicago, Rome, Buenos Aires, Singapore, Copenhagen, Stanford.
He was the founder and organizer of the European Mathematical Congress ( first in Paris in 1992 ). In 1978 he was awarded the prize of the Academy of Sciences of Paris. In 1980, he received the Silver Medal of the CNRS. In 1970 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice ( Fonda Apartments de la K- theory ). He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
His doctoral counts Christophe Soulé and Jean -Louis Loday.
Writings
- - Theory. An Introduction. Springer, basic teachings of Mathematical Sciences, 1978, 2008, ISBN 3-540-79889-7 ( Russian translation, 1981).
- With Christian Leruste: Algebraic Topology via Differential Geometry. Cambridge University Press 1987.
- Homology cyclique et theory. Astérisque Bd.149, 1987.
- Rapport sur K- theory, in Jean -Paul Pier Development of mathematics 1950-2000, Birkhäuser 2000
Publications (selection)
- Algebres de Clifford et K- théorie. Ann. Sci. École standard. Sup (4) 1 1968 161-270.
- Donovan: Graded Brauer groups and K -theory with local coefficients. Inst Hautes Études Sci. Publ Math No. 38 1970 5-25.
- Théorie de Quillen homology et du groupe orthogonal. Ann. of Math ( 2) 112 (1980 ), no 2, 207-257.
- Le theorems fondamental de la K- théorie hermitienne. Ann. of Math ( 2) 112 (1980 ), no 2, 259-282.