Andre Lichnerowicz

André Lichnerowicz (Bourbon-the Archambault, January 21st 1915 - Paris, December 11th 1998) is a Mathématicien French.

His/her parents were both Professor S: his/her aggregate mother of mathematics, and his/her aggregate father of letters. After studies with the Louis-the-Large College, the Faculty of Science and the National university, it becomes aggregate mathematical sciences in 1936 then science doctor in 1939, with a thesis relating to the General relativity.

He is successively professor in the universities of Strasbourg, starting from 1941, and of Paris, starting from 1949, and finally professor of mathematical physics to the Collège de France of 1952 with 1986. He is elected member of the Academy of Science in 1963. He chairs 1966 1973 the Departmental committee on the teaching of mathematics, known under the name of “Commission Lichnerowicz”. This commission has a capital influence in the teaching of mathematics: one ceases at the same time teaching as of the preparatory Cours the four operations (what remains of setting today) and, during a few years, the teaching of mathematics is controlled by the Axiomatique and the Ensemble S (before a return in strength of the Euclidean Géométrie and systems hypothético-deductive).

Mathematician remarkably shining and prolific, it is particularly interested in the applications of the differential Géométrie to the Mathematical physics, in particular in General relativity.

He was member many academies throughout the world, of which the pontifical academy.

He had as professor of differential geometry Élie Cartan, and among his students Thierry Aubin, Marcel Berger, Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat and Thibault Damour.

He was married with Suzanne Magdelain. They had three children: Marc, Jacques and Jerome. Marc was also mathematician.

Principal publications

total Problems in relativistic Mechanics , Paris, Hermann, 1939.
Elements of tensorial calculus , Armand Colin 1946, republication J. Gabay, 2005.
linear Algebra and Analyze, Paris, Masson , 1947.
relativistic Theories of the gravitation and electromagnetism , Paris, Masson, 1954.
total Théorie of connections and the groups of holonomy , Rome, Cremonese, 1955.
Géométrie of the groups of transformations , Paris, Dunod, 1958.
Propagateurs and switches in General relativity , Paris, P.U.F., 1961.

External bonds

Note biographqiue of the Collège de France
Note biographqiue of the ministry for the Culture
Discussion with Professor André Lichnerowicz, drawn from the book Discussions with mathematicians of Jacques Nimier
“Andre Lichnerowicz and research”, discussion with J. - F. Picardy, A. Prost, on May 14th 1986
Andre Lichnerowicz, articles of Marcel Shepherd, Jean-Pierre Burgundian, Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, Charles-Michel Marle and André Revuz
Proceedings off the Pontifical Academy off Sciences Homage to Andre Lichnerowicz (pp. 40-43)

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