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Jean-Paul Delahaye

b. 1952

French mathematician, computer scientist

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About Jean-Paul Delahaye

Born 1952. Jean-Paul Delahaye is a French mathematician, computer scientist, engineer, philosopher and science communicator.

Jean-Paul Delahaye (born 29 June 1952 in Saint-Mandé Seine) is a French computer scientist and mathematician.

Career Delahaye has been a professor of computer science at the Lille University of Science and Technology since 1988 and a researcher in the school's computer sciences lab since 1983. Since 1991 he has written a monthly column in Pour la Science, the French version of Scientific American, dealing with mathematical games and recreations, logic, and computer science. He is a contributing author of the online scientific journal Interstices and a science and mathematics advisor to the Encyclopædia Britannica.

Delahaye won the 1998 d'Alembert prize from the Société mathématique de France for his books and articles popularizing mathematics, especially for the book Le fascinant nombre Pi.

Works

Formal Methods in Artificial Intelligence, North-Oxford Academic, 1987, Le fascinant nombre pi, Paris: Bibliothèque Pour la Science, 1997,

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Important facts

Birth century
Nationality
Education
Lille University of Science and Technology, University of Paris-Sud, Science Faculty of Paris, Lycée Michelet, Vanves
Employers
Lille University of Science and Technology
Awards
D'Alembert Prize

Contemporaries

People whose lives overlapped Jean-Paul Delahaye's

Frequently asked questions

Who is Jean-Paul Delahaye?

French mathematician, computer scientist

When was Jean-Paul Delahaye born?

Jean-Paul Delahaye was born on 29 June 1952 in Saint-Mandé.

What is Jean-Paul Delahaye's occupation?

Jean-Paul Delahaye is a mathematician, computer scientist, engineer, philosopher and science communicator.

What nationality is Jean-Paul Delahaye?

Jean-Paul Delahaye is French.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Jean-Paul Delahaye

· Wikidata: Q93136

· DBpedia: Jean-Paul Delahaye

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