Nationality French Doctoral advisor Arnaud Denjoy Fields Mathematics | Name Ernest Corominas Institutions University of Lyon Doctoral students Maurice Pouzet | |
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Alma mater University of Paris
University of Barcelona Died January 24, 1992, Lyon, France Education University of Paris (1952), University of Barcelona (1936) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada | ||
Ernest Corominas i Vigneaux (1913 – 24 January 1992) was a Spanish-French mathematician.
Born in Barcelona, he studied architecture and mathematics at the University of Barcelona, graduating in 1936. He served as in officer of engineering in the Spanish Republican Army during the Spanish Civil War. In 1939 he fled to France, before moving to South America in 1940. After working six months as an architect in Chile, he moved to Argentina, where Julio Rey Pastor offered him a lecturer position at the University of Buenos Aires.
Corominas returned to Europe, where he attained his doctorate at the University of Paris in 1952, under the supervision of Arnaud Denjoy. He then lectured in Barcelona, Princeton, and Caracas, before settling in France at the University of Lyon. In 1966, Corominas became a French citizen.
He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1953.