Jacques Dixmier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Jacques Dixmier

French mathematician

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1924

Place of Birth: Saint-Étienne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Profession: mathematician

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Jacques Dixmier (born 1924) is a French mathematician.
He worked on operator algebras, especially C*-algebras, and wrote several of the standard reference books on them, and introduced the Dixmier trace and the Dixmier mapping.