Presentation

Born in Paris on 29 May 1957. Died September 3 2016.

Education and professional career

  • 1975-1979 : Studies at the École normale supérieure de la rue d'Ulm
  • 1977 : Agrégation in mathematics
  • 1979-1988 : CNRS research fellow at École polytechnique,
  • 1985 : State thesis : Centralizers and differentiable conjugation of circle diffeomorphisms
  • 1988-1996 : Professor at Université Paris-Sud
  • 1996-2016 : Professor at the Collège de France

Scientific and honorary distinctions

  • 1984 : CNRS Bronze Medal
  • 1985 : IBM Mathematics Prize
  • 1987 : Claude-Antoine Peccot Foundation lectureship at Collège de France
  • 1988 : SALEM Prize
  • 1990 : Guest speaker at the Kyoto International Congress
  • 1991 : Member of the Institut Universitaire de France
  • 1991 : JAFFE Prize from the French Academy of Sciences
  • 1994 : Plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematics, Zurich
  • 1994 : Fields Medal
  • 1994 : Member of the French Academy of Sciences
  • 1994 : Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences
  • 1995 : Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur
  • 1998 : Brazilian Order of Scientific Merit
  • 1998 : Grand Cross of the Order of Scientific Merit, Brazil
  • 2000 : Officer of the Order of Merit
  • 2004 : Associate Member of TWAS, the Academy of Sciences for Developing Countries

Selected bibliography

Main books and articles

Archives and original texts by Michel Herman