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Jean-Claude Sikorav

b. 1957

French mathematician

University teacher Mathematics
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Born 1957. Jean-Claude Sikorav is a French university teacher and mathematics.

Jean-Claude Sikorav (born 21 June 1957) is a French mathematician. He is professor at the École normale supérieure de Lyon. He is specialized in symplectic geometry.

Main contributions Sikorav is known for his proof, joint with François Laudenbach, of the Arnold conjecture for Lagrangian intersections in cotangent bundles, as well as for introducing generating families in symplectic topology.

Selected publications Sikorav is one of fifteen members of a group of mathematicians who published the book Uniformisation des surfaces de Riemann under the pseudonym of Henri Paul de Saint-Gervais.

He has written the survey . and research papers . .

Honors Sikorav is a Knight of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques.

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Education
Lycée Louis-le-Grand, École Normale Supérieure, Lycée Janson-de-Sailly
Employers
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Awards
Knight of the French Order of Academic Palms; Cours Peccot

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Who is Jean-Claude Sikorav?

French mathematician

When was Jean-Claude Sikorav born?

Jean-Claude Sikorav was born on 21 June 1957 in Paris.

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Jean-Claude Sikorav is a university teacher and mathematics.

What nationality is Jean-Claude Sikorav?

Jean-Claude Sikorav is French.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Jean-Claude Sikorav

· Wikidata: Q1684777

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