Pierre Lelong

Pierre Lelong (14 March 1912 Paris – 12 October 2011)[1] was a French mathematician who introduced the Poincaré–Lelong equation, the Lelong number and the concept of plurisubharmonic function.

For the neo-Impressionist painter, see Pierre Emile Lelong.

Lelong earned his doctorate in 1941 from the École Normale Supérieure, under the supervision of Paul Montel.[2] On 5 June 1981 Lelong received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Mathematics and Science at Uppsala University, Sweden.[3] He was a member of the French Academy of Sciences since 1985.[1]

He married another mathematician, Jacqueline Ferrand, in 1947; they separated in 1977.[4]

References
  1. Pierre Lelong at the académie des sciences
  2. Pierre Lelong at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/traditions/prizes/honorary-doctorates/
  4. Kosmann-Schwarzbach, Yvette (2015), "Women mathematicians in France in the mid-twentieth century", BSHM Bulletin: Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics, arXiv:1502.07597, doi:10.1080/17498430.2014.976804.
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