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Michèle Audin

April 11, 2024

Michèle Audin (Algiers, 3 January, 1954) is a French mathematician, writer, and a former professor. She has worked as a professor at the University of Geneva, the University of Paris-Saclay and most recently at the University of Strasbourg, where she performed research notably in the area of symplectic geometry.[1][2][3]

Michèle Audin
Michèle Audin in 2016
Born (1954-01-03) 3 January 1954 (age 70)
Algiers (French Algeria)
NationalityFrench
Alma materUniversité Paris-Sud
AwardsPrix Ève Delacroix (2013)
Scientific career
FieldsSymplectic geometry
InstitutionsUniversité de Strasbourg
Thesis Cobordismes d'immersions lagrangiennes et legendriennes  (1986)
Doctoral advisorFrançois Latour

Biography edit

Michéle Audin is the daughter of mathematician Maurice Audin and mathematics teacher Josette Audin [fr], both pied-noirs and political activists for the independence of Algeria.[4] While she was a child, her father died under torture in June 1957 in Algeria, after being arrested by General Jacques Massu's paratroopers.[5]

She studied at the École normale supérieure de jeunes filles (now merged into the École Normale Supérieure but at the time a separate institution) and then she earned a Ph.D. degree in 1986 from the University of Paris-Saclay, with a thesis written under the supervision of François Latour, entitled Cobordismes d'immersions lagrangiennes et legendriens [Cobordisms of Lagrangian and Legendrian immersions].[6]

She then became a professor at the Institut de recherche mathématique avancée [fr] (IRMA) of the Université de Strasbourg from 1987 until her early retirement in 2014.[7] She was president of the association Femmes et mathématiques in 1990 and 1991.[8]

In 2009 she refused to receive the Legion of Honour, on the grounds that the President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, had refused to respond to a letter written by her mother regarding the disappearance of her father.[9] Finally in September 2018, French president Emmanuel Macron admitted that Maurice Audin was tortured to death and apologized on behalf of France.[10][11][12]

In 2013 she was awarded the Prix Ève Delacroix for her novel Une vie brève.[13]

Research edit

Michèle Audin's research work mainly belongs to the field of symplectic geometry. Her PhD thesis draws on René Thom's theory of cobordism[14] to contribute to the founding program of symplectic topology launched by the Russian mathematician Vladimir Arnold. Audin then oriented her research to dynamical aspects, and more specifically to Hamiltonian systems.

In her monograph "Spinning tops: A Course on Integrable Systems", Audin discusses in detail the question of whether a dynamical system is integrable, a central question of her later research. A particularly enlightening example comes from her article "Sur la réduction symplectique appliquée à la non-intégrabilité du problème du satellite".

Audin's work on Kovalevskaya top led her to write another book, both mathematical, historical and more personal on this mathematician: "Souvenirs sur Sofia Kovalevskaya". She also published the correspondence (1928-1991) of two members of the Bourbaki group, the mathematicians Henri Cartan and André Weil, she wrote the first biography of the mathematician Jacques Feldbau, and she documented the genesis of the modern holomorphic dynamics, with detailed portraits of the main protagonists: Pierre Fatou, Gaston Julia and Paul Montel.

She contributes regularly on historical subjects to the mathematics popularisation website Images des mathématiques [fr].[15]

As a writer edit

Alongside her activity as a mathematician, Audin leads an intense literary activity on her own and, since 2009, within the Oulipo.[16]

History of the Paris Commune edit

Passionate about the insurrection of the Paris Commune of 1871, Audin has written five books on this topic to document its history as well as its memory: two novels published by Gallimard, Comme une rivière bleue (2017)[17] and Josée Meunier, 19 rue des Juifs (2021), as well as three historical books published by Libertalia [fr]. The first, Eugène Varlin, bookbinding worker 1839-1871 (2019), is an anthology of the various writings of Eugène Varlin, some of which have not been published since their original release.[18] The second, C'est la nuit surtout que le combat devient furieux (2020), publishes the correspondence between Alix Payen, an unknown paramedic, and her Fourierist family, during the few months of the Parisian insurrection.[19] The last, La Semaine sanglante: Mai 1871. Légendes et comptes (2021), proposes a new counting of the deaths of Bloody Week, going up to “certainly 15,000 dead”.

Activity within the Oulipo edit

Audin was guest of honor at a meeting of Oulipo on the initiative of Jacques Roubaud, following the publication of her book Souvenirs sur Sofia Kovalevskaya, which mixes in a discontinuous form anecdotes, precise mathematics, testimonials, excerpts of correspondence with commentary and even literary pastiches. There are references to the Oulipo in testimonial chapters entitled “Je me souviens” in reference to Georges Perec, or even in a pastiche of Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino.[20]

She became part of Oulipo in 2009, as the first member to be both a mathematician and a writer. Mathematics is for her both a source of inspiration for the constraints she invents and a recurring theme in her literary work. For example, in her novel La formule de Stokes, the heroine is a mathematical formula.[21]

She invented constraints of a geometric nature such as Pascal's or Désargues' constraint. Pascal's constraint was experienced in her online story Mai Quai Conti[22] which evokes the history of the Académie des sciences during the Paris Commune: the relationships between the characters of the story are determined by the position of the points of a geometric figure illustrating Pascal's theorem.[20]

She also worked with Ian Monk on nonine, i.e. a variant of the sestina based on numbers which are not Queneau numbers, and therefore with which the system of permutation of the sestina does not work.[23]

Her first novel, Cent vingt et un jours, is based on an onzine, i.e. a quenine of order 11 (variant of the sestina) from which characters, literary references and other elements of the narrative permute in a regulated manner. As in the poetic sestina, the last word of a chapter is the same as the first word of the next chapter.[20]

Publications edit

Literature edit

  • (in French) La formule de Stokes, roman, Cassini, 2016.
  • (in French) Mademoiselle Haas, Gallimard, 2016.
  • (in French) Cent vingt et un jours, Gallimard, 2014. Translated into English by Christiana Hills as One Hundred Twenty-One Days, Deep Vellum, 2016.
  • (in French) Une vie brève, Gallimard, 2013.

History of Mathematics edit

  • (in French) Correspondance entre Henri Cartan et André Weil (1928-1991), Documents Mathématiques 6, Société Mathématique de France, 2011.
  • (in French) Une histoire de Jacques Feldbau, Société mathématique de France, collection T, 2010.
  • (in French) Fatou, Julia, Montel, le Grand Prix des sciences mathématiques de 1918, et après, Springer, 2009
  • (in French) Souvenirs sur Sofia Kovalevskaya, Calvage et Mounet, 2008.

Mathematics edit

  • (in French) Géométrie, EDP-Sciences, 2005.
  • Hamiltonian systems and their integrability, Translated from the 2001 French original by Anna Pierrehumbert. Translation edited by Donald Babbitt. SMF/AMS Texts and Monographs, vol. 15. American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI; Société mathématique de France, Paris, 2008. ISBN 978-0-8218-4413-7, MR2440371
  • The topology of torus actions on symplectic manifolds, Progress in Mathematics, vol. 93, Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel, 1991. ISBN 3-7643-2602-6, MR1106194

References edit

  1. ^ "Michèle AUDIN". Le Dictionnaire universel des créatrices. Retrieved 2022-03-27.
  2. ^ Jackson, Allyn (2017). "Michèle Audin, Mathematician and Writer" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 64 (7). American Mathematical Society: 761–762. doi:10.1090/noti1545.
  3. ^ Etchecopar, Philippe (2015-08-18). "Michèle Audin, mathématicienne (1954-)" [Michèle Audin, mathematician (1954-)]. Femmes Savantes, Femmes de Science (in Canadian French).
  4. ^ Simon, Catherine (2013-01-10). "Michèle Audin, géomètre du souvenir" [Michèle Audin, geometer of memories]. Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 2022-03-27.
  5. ^ Béguin, François (2012-12-17). "Affaire Maurice Audin : "L'ouverture des archives est avant tout symbolique"" [Affaire Maurice Audin: "The opening of the archives is above all symbolic"]. Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 2022-03-27.
  6. ^ "Michèle Audin". Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved 2022-03-27.
  7. ^ Audin, Michèle (2014-02-25). "Gagner moins pour travailler plus" [Earn less to travel more]. CNRS (in French). Retrieved 2022-03-27.
  8. ^ "Instances – Femmes et Mathématiques" (in French). Retrieved 2022-03-27.
  9. ^ Plenel, Edwy (2009-01-02). "La lettre de Michèle Audin à Nicolas Sarkozy" [The letter of Michèle Audin to Nicolas Sarkozy]. Mediapart (in French). Retrieved 2022-03-27.
  10. ^ Chrisafis, Angelique (2018-09-13). "France admits systematic torture during Algeria war for first time". the Guardian. Retrieved 2022-03-27.
  11. ^ Nossiter, Adam (2018-09-13). "French Soldiers Tortured Algerians, Macron Admits 6 Decades Later". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-03-27.
  12. ^ Cirri, Massimo (2018-09-14). "Morte di un matematico francese" [Death of a French mathematician]. Il Post (in Italian).
  13. ^ "Michèle AUDIN". Académie française. Retrieved 2022-03-27.
  14. ^ Thom, Réné (1954). "Quelques propriétés globales des variétés différentiables" [Some global properties of differentiable manifolds]. Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (in French). 28: 17–86. doi:10.1007/BF02566923. ISSN 0010-2571. S2CID 120243638.
  15. ^ "Images des mathématiques". CNRS. Retrieved 2022-03-27.
  16. ^ "Michèle Audin". Oulipo (in French). 2013-07-23. Retrieved 2022-03-27.
  17. ^ Perraud, Antoine (2017-12-07). "« Comme une rivière bleue », cause commune" [“Like a blue river”, common cause]. La Croix (in French). ISSN 0242-6056. Retrieved 2022-03-27.
  18. ^ Dejean, Mathieu (2019-05-23). "Pourquoi il est important de se souvenir d'Eugène Varlin, militant ouvrier et communard" [Why it is important to remember Eugène Varlin, labour activist and communard]. Les Inrockuptibles (in French). Retrieved 2022-03-27.
  19. ^ Bouyssy, Maïté (2020-08-12). "Aux grandes femmes la Commune reconnaissante" [To great women the grateful Commune]. En attendant Nadeau [fr] (in French). Retrieved 2022-03-27.
  20. ^ a b c Tahar, Virginie (2018). "Quand les mathématiques, l'histoire et la littérature s'emmêlent. Entretien avec Michèle Audin" [When mathematics, history and literature intertwine. Interview with Michèle Audin] (PDF). Formule: Revue des créations formelles (in French). 21: 349–362.
  21. ^ Tahar, Virginie (2020). "Les oulipiennes sont-elles des oulipiens comme les autres?" [Are female Oulipians as the other Oulipians?] (PDF). In Trotot, Caroline; Delahaye, Claire; Mornat, Isabelle (eds.). Femmes à l'œuvre dans la construction des savoirs: paradoxes de la visibilité et de l'invisibilité [Women at work in the construction of knowledge: paradoxes of visibility and invisibility]. Savoirs en Texte (in French). Champs sur Marne: LISAA éditeur. pp. 215–232. ISBN 9782956648062.
  22. ^ Audin, Michèle (2011-03-25). "Mai quai Conti". oulipo.net (in French). Retrieved 2022-03-27.
  23. ^ Audin, Michèle (2015-04-19). "Nombres de Queneau (ou non)" [Queneau numbers (or not)]. Oulipo (in French). Retrieved 2022-03-27.

External links edit

  • Page about Michèle Audin on the Website of l'IRMA 2017-10-07 at the Wayback Machine
  • Page about Michèle Audin on the official Website of l'Oulipo
  • Michèle Audin, Publier sous l’Occupation. Autour du cas de Jacques Feldbau et de l’académie des sciences 2011-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
  • Michèle Audin, La vérité sur la Poldévie 2014-01-03 at the Wayback Machine
  • Michèle Audin, Carrés imparfaits 2011-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
  • All articles written by Michèle Audin are in Images des Mathématiques

April 11, 2024
michèle, audin, algiers, january, 1954, french, mathematician, writer, former, professor, worked, professor, university, geneva, university, paris, saclay, most, recently, university, strasbourg, where, performed, research, notably, area, symplectic, geometry,. Michele Audin Algiers 3 January 1954 is a French mathematician writer and a former professor She has worked as a professor at the University of Geneva the University of Paris Saclay and most recently at the University of Strasbourg where she performed research notably in the area of symplectic geometry 1 2 3 Michele AudinMichele Audin in 2016Born 1954 01 03 3 January 1954 age 70 Algiers French Algeria NationalityFrenchAlma materUniversite Paris SudAwardsPrix Eve Delacroix 2013 Scientific careerFieldsSymplectic geometryInstitutionsUniversite de StrasbourgThesisCobordismes d immersions lagrangiennes et legendriennes 1986 Doctoral advisorFrancois Latour Contents 1 Biography 2 Research 3 As a writer 3 1 History of the Paris Commune 3 2 Activity within the Oulipo 4 Publications 4 1 Literature 4 2 History of Mathematics 4 3 Mathematics 5 References 6 External linksBiography editMichele Audin is the daughter of mathematician Maurice Audin and mathematics teacher Josette Audin fr both pied noirs and political activists for the independence of Algeria 4 While she was a child her father died under torture in June 1957 in Algeria after being arrested by General Jacques Massu s paratroopers 5 She studied at the Ecole normale superieure de jeunes filles now merged into the Ecole Normale Superieure but at the time a separate institution and then she earned a Ph D degree in 1986 from the University of Paris Saclay with a thesis written under the supervision of Francois Latour entitled Cobordismes d immersions lagrangiennes et legendriens Cobordisms of Lagrangian and Legendrian immersions 6 She then became a professor at the Institut de recherche mathematique avancee fr IRMA of the Universite de Strasbourg from 1987 until her early retirement in 2014 7 She was president of the association Femmes et mathematiques in 1990 and 1991 8 In 2009 she refused to receive the Legion of Honour on the grounds that the President of France Nicolas Sarkozy had refused to respond to a letter written by her mother regarding the disappearance of her father 9 Finally in September 2018 French president Emmanuel Macron admitted that Maurice Audin was tortured to death and apologized on behalf of France 10 11 12 In 2013 she was awarded the Prix Eve Delacroix for her novel Une vie breve 13 Research editMichele Audin s research work mainly belongs to the field of symplectic geometry Her PhD thesis draws on Rene Thom s theory of cobordism 14 to contribute to the founding program of symplectic topology launched by the Russian mathematician Vladimir Arnold Audin then oriented her research to dynamical aspects and more specifically to Hamiltonian systems In her monograph Spinning tops A Course on Integrable Systems Audin discusses in detail the question of whether a dynamical system is integrable a central question of her later research A particularly enlightening example comes from her article Sur la reduction symplectique appliquee a la non integrabilite du probleme du satellite Audin s work on Kovalevskaya top led her to write another book both mathematical historical and more personal on this mathematician Souvenirs sur Sofia Kovalevskaya She also published the correspondence 1928 1991 of two members of the Bourbaki group the mathematicians Henri Cartan and Andre Weil she wrote the first biography of the mathematician Jacques Feldbau and she documented the genesis of the modern holomorphic dynamics with detailed portraits of the main protagonists Pierre Fatou Gaston Julia and Paul Montel She contributes regularly on historical subjects to the mathematics popularisation website Images des mathematiques fr 15 As a writer editAlongside her activity as a mathematician Audin leads an intense literary activity on her own and since 2009 within the Oulipo 16 History of the Paris Commune edit Passionate about the insurrection of the Paris Commune of 1871 Audin has written five books on this topic to document its history as well as its memory two novels published by Gallimard Comme une riviere bleue 2017 17 and Josee Meunier 19 rue des Juifs 2021 as well as three historical books published by Libertalia fr The first Eugene Varlin bookbinding worker 1839 1871 2019 is an anthology of the various writings of Eugene Varlin some of which have not been published since their original release 18 The second C est la nuit surtout que le combat devient furieux 2020 publishes the correspondence between Alix Payen an unknown paramedic and her Fourierist family during the few months of the Parisian insurrection 19 The last La Semaine sanglante Mai 1871 Legendes et comptes 2021 proposes a new counting of the deaths of Bloody Week going up to certainly 15 000 dead Activity within the Oulipo edit Audin was guest of honor at a meeting of Oulipo on the initiative of Jacques Roubaud following the publication of her book Souvenirs sur Sofia Kovalevskaya which mixes in a discontinuous form anecdotes precise mathematics testimonials excerpts of correspondence with commentary and even literary pastiches There are references to the Oulipo in testimonial chapters entitled Je me souviens in reference to Georges Perec or even in a pastiche of Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino 20 She became part of Oulipo in 2009 as the first member to be both a mathematician and a writer Mathematics is for her both a source of inspiration for the constraints she invents and a recurring theme in her literary work For example in her novel La formule de Stokes the heroine is a mathematical formula 21 She invented constraints of a geometric nature such as Pascal s or Desargues constraint Pascal s constraint was experienced in her online story Mai Quai Conti 22 which evokes the history of the Academie des sciences during the Paris Commune the relationships between the characters of the story are determined by the position of the points of a geometric figure illustrating Pascal s theorem 20 She also worked with Ian Monk on nonine i e a variant of the sestina based on numbers which are not Queneau numbers and therefore with which the system of permutation of the sestina does not work 23 Her first novel Cent vingt et un jours is based on an onzine i e a quenine of order 11 variant of the sestina from which characters literary references and other elements of the narrative permute in a regulated manner As in the poetic sestina the last word of a chapter is the same as the first word of the next chapter 20 Publications editLiterature edit in French La formule de Stokes roman Cassini 2016 in French Mademoiselle Haas Gallimard 2016 in French Cent vingt et un jours Gallimard 2014 Translated into English by Christiana Hills as One Hundred Twenty One Days Deep Vellum 2016 in French Une vie breve Gallimard 2013 History of Mathematics edit in French Correspondance entre Henri Cartan et Andre Weil 1928 1991 Documents Mathematiques 6 Societe Mathematique de France 2011 in French Une histoire de Jacques Feldbau Societe mathematique de France collection T 2010 in French Fatou Julia Montel le Grand Prix des sciences mathematiques de 1918 et apres Springer 2009 in French Souvenirs sur Sofia Kovalevskaya Calvage et Mounet 2008 Mathematics edit in French Geometrie EDP Sciences 2005 Hamiltonian systems and their integrability Translated from the 2001 French original by Anna Pierrehumbert Translation edited by Donald Babbitt SMF AMS Texts and Monographs vol 15 American Mathematical Society Providence RI Societe mathematique de France Paris 2008 ISBN 978 0 8218 4413 7 MR2440371 The topology of torus actions on symplectic manifolds Progress in Mathematics vol 93 Birkhauser Verlag Basel 1991 ISBN 3 7643 2602 6 MR1106194References edit Michele AUDIN Le Dictionnaire universel des creatrices Retrieved 2022 03 27 Jackson Allyn 2017 Michele Audin Mathematician and Writer PDF Notices of the American Mathematical Society 64 7 American Mathematical Society 761 762 doi 10 1090 noti1545 Etchecopar Philippe 2015 08 18 Michele Audin mathematicienne 1954 Michele Audin mathematician 1954 Femmes Savantes Femmes de Science in Canadian French Simon Catherine 2013 01 10 Michele Audin geometre du souvenir Michele Audin geometer of memories Le Monde in French Retrieved 2022 03 27 Beguin Francois 2012 12 17 Affaire Maurice Audin L ouverture des archives est avant tout symbolique Affaire Maurice Audin The opening of the archives is above all symbolic Le Monde in French Retrieved 2022 03 27 Michele Audin Mathematics Genealogy Project Retrieved 2022 03 27 Audin Michele 2014 02 25 Gagner moins pour travailler plus Earn less to travel more CNRS in French Retrieved 2022 03 27 Instances Femmes et Mathematiques in French Retrieved 2022 03 27 Plenel Edwy 2009 01 02 La lettre de Michele Audin a Nicolas Sarkozy The letter of Michele Audin to Nicolas Sarkozy Mediapart in French Retrieved 2022 03 27 Chrisafis Angelique 2018 09 13 France admits systematic torture during Algeria war for first time the Guardian Retrieved 2022 03 27 Nossiter Adam 2018 09 13 French Soldiers Tortured Algerians Macron Admits 6 Decades Later The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 2022 03 27 Cirri Massimo 2018 09 14 Morte di un matematico francese Death of a French mathematician Il Post in Italian Michele AUDIN Academie francaise Retrieved 2022 03 27 Thom Rene 1954 Quelques proprietes globales des varietes differentiables Some global properties of differentiable manifolds Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici in French 28 17 86 doi 10 1007 BF02566923 ISSN 0010 2571 S2CID 120243638 Images des mathematiques CNRS Retrieved 2022 03 27 Michele Audin Oulipo in French 2013 07 23 Retrieved 2022 03 27 Perraud Antoine 2017 12 07 Comme une riviere bleue cause commune Like a blue river common cause La Croix in French ISSN 0242 6056 Retrieved 2022 03 27 Dejean Mathieu 2019 05 23 Pourquoi il est important de se souvenir d Eugene Varlin militant ouvrier et communard Why it is important to remember Eugene Varlin labour activist and communard Les Inrockuptibles in French Retrieved 2022 03 27 Bouyssy Maite 2020 08 12 Aux grandes femmes la Commune reconnaissante To great women the grateful Commune En attendant Nadeau fr in French Retrieved 2022 03 27 a b c Tahar Virginie 2018 Quand les mathematiques l histoire et la litterature s emmelent Entretien avec Michele Audin When mathematics history and literature intertwine Interview with Michele Audin PDF Formule Revue des creations formelles in French 21 349 362 Tahar Virginie 2020 Les oulipiennes sont elles des oulipiens comme les autres Are female Oulipians as the other Oulipians PDF In Trotot Caroline Delahaye Claire Mornat Isabelle eds Femmes a l œuvre dans la construction des savoirs paradoxes de la visibilite et de l invisibilite Women at work in the construction of knowledge paradoxes of visibility and invisibility Savoirs en Texte in French Champs sur Marne LISAA editeur pp 215 232 ISBN 9782956648062 Audin Michele 2011 03 25 Mai quai Conti oulipo net in French Retrieved 2022 03 27 Audin Michele 2015 04 19 Nombres de Queneau ou non Queneau numbers or not Oulipo in French Retrieved 2022 03 27 External links editPage about Michele Audin on the Website of l IRMA Archived 2017 10 07 at the Wayback Machine Page about Michele Audin on the official Website of l Oulipo Michele Audin Publier sous l Occupation Autour du cas de Jacques Feldbau et de l academie des sciences Archived 2011 09 28 at the Wayback Machine Michele Audin La verite sur la Poldevie Archived 2014 01 03 at the Wayback Machine Michele Audin Carres imparfaits Archived 2011 09 28 at the Wayback Machine All articles written by Michele Audin are in Images des Mathematiques Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Michele Audin amp oldid 1209259762, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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