Michel Raynaud, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French mathematician
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Place of Birth: Riom, Auvergne-RhĂ´ne-Alpes, France
About Michel Raynaud
- Michel Raynaud (French: [??no]; 16 June 1938 – 10 March 2018) was a French mathematician working in algebraic geometry.
- He was a professor at Paris-Sud 11 University.
- He was married to Michèle Raynaud who also worked with Grothendieck. In 1983 he published a proof of the Manin–Mumford conjecture.In 1970 Raynaud was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice.
- In 1987 he received the Prize Ampère from the French Academy of Sciences.
- In 1995 he received the Cole Prize, together with David Harbater, for his solution of the Abhyankar conjecture. He practiced skiing (especially in Val-d'Isère), tennis, and rock climbing (in Fontainebleau).
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