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Daniel Bennequin (3 January 1952) is a French mathematician, known for the Thurston–Bennequin number (sometimes called the Bennequin number) introduced in his doctoral dissertation.
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- Discussion Panel What is the role of Topos in Information and Communication Technologies
- Daniel Bennequin Topos and Information
- Education and career
- Selected publications
- References
Daniel Bennequin - Topos and Information
Education and career
Bennequin completed his secondary education at Lycée Condorcet and then graduated from the École normale supérieure. He received his habilitation (Doctoral d'Etat) in 1982 from the University of Paris VII under Alain Chenciner with thesis Entrelacements et équations de Pfaff. He was a professor at the University of Strasbourg before becoming a professor at the University of Paris VII (Institut Mathématique de Jussieu).
Bennequin's dissertation was a major contribution to contact geometry, in which he gave the first example of an exotic contact structure embedded in Euclidan 3-space. On the basis of their work in the 1980s Bennequin and Yakov Eliashberg might be considered the founders of contact topology. Bennequin also works on motion planning. He was a member of Bourbaki.