Pierre Pansu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Pierre Pansu

French mathematician

Date of Birth: 13-Jul-1959

Place of Birth: Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Profession: mathematician

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Pierre Pansu (born 13 July 1959) is a French mathematician and a member of the Arthur Besse group and a close collaborator of Mikhail Gromov.
He is a professor at the Université Paris-Sud 11 and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
His main research field is geometry.
His contribution to mathematics is being celebrated by a double event (a conference and a workshop) co-organized for his 60th birthday by the Clay Mathematics Institute. Pierre Pansu is the grandson of French physician Félix Esclangon, and the great grand-nephew of mathematician and astronomer Ernest Esclangon, inventor of the talking clock, and brother of Robert Pansu, chemist and research director at CNRS.