Bernadette Perrin-Riou

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Bernadette Perrin-Riou (born 1 August 1955) is a French number theorist.

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Early life

Perrin-Riou was born on 1 August 1955 in Les Vans, Ardèche, France. Her parents had both had a scientific education; [1] her mother and father were a physicist and chemist, respectively. She was brought up, along with her sisters, in Neuilly-sur-Seine. [2] [3]

Education

She entered the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Jeunes Filles in 1974, completing her undergraduate work in 1977. She then took a research assistant position at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris. [3] She received an advanced degree from University of Paris-Sud in 1979, working with Georges Poitou; [2] she then obtained a doctoral degree from the Pierre and Marie Curie University in 1983. Her thesis advisor was John H. Coates, and her thesis was entitled "Arithmetique des courbes elliptiques et théorie d'Iwasawa" ("Arithmetic of elliptic curves and Iwasawa theory"). [3]

Career

She became maître de conferences at UPMC in 1983, and was then invited to spend a year as a visiting professor at Harvard University; she subsequently became a professor at the same university. [3]

In 1994 she moved to a position at University of Paris-Sud in Orsay [2] In the same year, she was invited to give an address at the International Congress of Mathematicians, which was held in Zürich, [3] which she gave on "Fonctions L p-adiques" ("p-adic L-functions"). [4]

Research

Perrin-Riou's research is in number theory, concentrating on p-adic L-functions and Iwasawa theory. [1]

Awards

She was awarded the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics prize in 1999, a prize established in 1990 for women in maths. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "1999 Satter Prize" (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 46 (4): 467–468. April 1999.
  2. 1 2 3 Charlene Morrow and Teri Peri, ed. (1998). Notable Women in Mathematics. Greenwood Press. pp. 161–164.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Bernadette Perrin-Riou". MacTutor History of Mathematics. February 2010. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
  4. Bernadette Perrin-Riou (1994). Fonctions Lp-adiques [p-adic L-functions](PDF). International Congress of Mathematicians (in French). Vol. I. pp. 400–410.