| Jean-Michel Bismut | |
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Jean-Michel Bismut in 2004
(photo from MFO) |
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| Born |
26 February 1948 Lisbon, Portugal |
| Nationality | French |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Université Paris-Sud |
| Alma mater | Ecole Polytechnique |
| Doctoral advisor |
Jacques-Louis Lions Jacques Neveu |
| Doctoral students |
Patrick Cattiaux Kai Köhler |
| Known for | Probabilistic proof of Atiyah-Singer index theorem |
| Notable awards | Prix Ampère (French Academy of Sciences), 1990 |
Jean-Michel Bismut (born 26 February 1948) is a French mathematician who has been a Professor at the Université Paris-Sud since 1981.
His early work was related to , stochastic control, and Malliavin calculus, to which he made fundamental contributions, giving a probabilistic proof of Hörmander's theorem. He found a heat equation proof for the Atiyah–Singer index theorem. In 1990 he was awarded the Prix Ampere of the Academy of Sciences. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in the summer of 1984. He was elected as a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1991.