Pierre Cartier (mathematician)
Emile Jean Pierre Cartier ( born June 10 1932 in Sedan, Ardennes ) is a French mathematician. His main interest is algebraic geometry, representation and category theory.
Biography
Cartier grew up in the small town of Sedan in the Ardennes and went there and in Paris ( Lycée Saint- Louis) to school. He studied from 1950 at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS ), where he initially wanted to study physics. Since the doctrine was but completely outdated, he switched to mathematics, which he heard with Laurent Schwartz and Henri Cartan. In 1951 he graduated ( Agrégé ) in mathematics and was in the same year on the summer Bourbaki congress invited ( In 1955 he became an official member of Bourbaki, where he retired in 1983 after reaching the age of 50 years ). He was from 1954 to 1957, scientists from the CNRS and worked on his doctorate in 1958 at the Henri Cartan ( Derviations et Deriveurs s geometry algébrique ). 1957 to 1959 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study. From 1961 he was professor at the University of Strasbourg (then Faculté de Science). In 1971 he was appointed professor at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques in Paris. At the same time he was Director of Research at CNRS since 1974. In 1982 he became a professor at the Ecole Polytechnique and in 1988 at the ENS.
Pierre Cartier launched the Cartier operator, and is the namesake of the Cartier divisor.
In 1970 he was Invited Speaker ( formels Groupes, automorphes fonctions et fonction zeta of courbes elliptiques ) at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice. In 1978 the Prix Ampere, the French Academy of Sciences. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
The Nicolas Bourbaki Seminar Rooms he held until 2002, by far the most lectures (37).
His doctoral counts Henniart Guy and Marc Rosso.
He was married since 1951 and has one daughter.
Writings
- An introduction to zeta functions, in Michel Waldschmidt, Claude Itzykson, Jean -Marc Luck, Pierre Moussa (Editor ): Number Theory and Physics, Les Houches 1989, Springer 1992
- A mad day's work: from Grothendieck to Connes and Kontsevich. The evolution of concepts of space and symmetry, Bulletin AMS, Volume 38, 2001, S.389 -408, online
- A primer on Hopf algebras, in Pierre Cartier et al Frontiers in Number Theory, Physics and Geometry, Volume 2, Springer Verlag 2007