Arnaud Beauville, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Arnaud Beauville

French mathematician

Date of Birth: 10-May-1947

Place of Birth: Boulogne-Billancourt, Île-de-France, France

Profession: mathematician, university teacher, researcher

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

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.