Nationality French Name Arnaud Beauville | Role Mathematician | |
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Institutions University of Nice Sophia AntipolisParis-Sud 11 UniversityUniversity of Angers Doctoral students Olivier DebarreYves LaszloChristian PaulyClaire Voisin Books Complex Algebraic Surfaces | ||
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Arnaud Beauville (born 10 May 1947) is a French mathematician, whose research interest is algebraic geometry.
Beauville earned his doctorate from Paris Diderot University in 1977, with a thesis regarding Prym varieties and the Schottky problem, under supervision of Jean-Louis Verdier.
He has been a Professor at the Université Paris-Sud, then Director of the Mathematics Department at the École Normale Supérieure. He is currently Professor emeritus at the Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis.
Beauville was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in the summer of 1982. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1986 at Berkeley. He was a member of Bourbaki. He has had 25 Ph.D. students, among them Claire Voisin, Olivier Debarre, Yves Laszlo.
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.