Gérald Tenenbaum

Gérald Tenenbaum is a French mathematician and novelist, born in Nancy on 1 April 1952.[1]

Gérald Tenenbaum, 10 July 2004.

Biography

An alumnus of the École Polytechnique, he has been professor of mathematics at the Institut Élie Cartan at Henri Poincaré University (Nancy-1) since 1981.[1]

An associate of Paul Erdős and specialist in analytic and probabilistic number theory, Gérald Tenenbaum received the A-X Gaston Julia prize in 1976, the Albert Châtelet medal in algebra and number theory in 1985 and, together with Michel Mendès France, the Paul-Émile Doistau Blutet prize from the French Academy of Sciences in 1999.[1][2]

His novel L'Ordre des jours, published in 2008 by Héloïse d'Ormesson, received the Prix Erckmann-Chatrian the same year.[1]

Selected bibliography

Mathematics

• (with Richard R. Hall) Divisors, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1988, Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics, vol. 90, ISBN 0-521-34056-X.
• Introduction à la théorie analytique et probabiliste des nombres, Institut Elie Cartan, 1990, ISBN 2903594120; 2nd rev. ed., Paris, Société Mathématique de France, 1995, ISBN 2856290329; 4th ed., Paris, Belin, 2015, Collection Échelles, ISBN 978-2701196565; translated into English, by P. Ion, as Introduction to analytic and probabilistic number theory, Graduate Studies in Mathematics #163, American Mathematical Society 2015, ISBN 978-0821898543.
• (with Michel Mendès France) Les nombres premiers, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1997, collection Que sais-je? #571; translated into English, by Philip G. Spain, as The Prime Numbers and Their Distribution, American Mathematical Society, 2000, reprinted with corrections 2001, ISBN 0-8218-1647-0.
• (with Michel Mendès France) Les Nombres premiers, entre l'ordre et le chaos, Dunod, 2011, ISBN 2100559362.

Literature

• Trois pièces faciles, drama, L'Harmattan, 1999, ISBN 2-7384-7280-X.
• Rendez-vous au bord d'une ombre, novel, Le bord de l'eau, 2002, ISBN 2-9118-0349-3.
• Le Geste, novel, Héloïse d'Ormesson, 2006, ISBN 2-35087-012-X.
• Le Problème de Nath, juvenile novel, Belin, 2007, ISBN 2-7011-4600-3.
• L'Ordre des jours, novel, Héloïse d'Ormessson, 2008, ISBN 978-2-35087-088-5.
• Souffles couplés, novel, Héloïse d'Ormessson, 2010, ISBN 978-2-35087-136-3.
• L'Affinité des traces, novel, Héloïse d'Ormessson, 2012, ISBN 978-2-35087-190-5.
• Peau vive, novel, La Grande Ourse, 2014, ISBN 979-10-91416-22-1.

References

1. Zéro faute à l’IUT Nancy-Brabois, press release, University of Lorraine, January 30, 2012. Accessed on line June 26, 2012.
2. PRIX PAUL DOISTAU-ÉMILE BLUTET DE L’INFORMATION SCIENTIFIQUE Archived 2013-05-25 at the Wayback Machine, French Academy of Sciences. Accessed on line June 26, 2012.

External links

• Homepage of Gérald Tenenbaum at the Institut Élie Cartan