Alain Connes

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Alain Connes
Alain Connes in 2004
Born	(1947-04-01) 1 April 1947 (age 74) Draguignan, France
Nationality	French
Alma mater	École Normale Supérieure Pierre and Marie Curie University
Known for	Baum–Connes conjecture Noncommutative geometry Noncommutative standard model Operator algebras Thermal time hypothesis
Awards	CNRS Silver Medal (1977) Prize Ampère (1980) Fields Medal (1982) Clay Research Award (2000) Crafoord Prize (2001) CNRS Gold medal (2004)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics Particle physics
Institutions	Collège de France IHÉS Ohio State University Vanderbilt University
Doctoral advisor	Jacques Dixmier
Doctoral students	Jean-Benoît Bost Georges Skandalis

Alain Connes (French: [alɛ̃ kɔn]; born 1 April 1947) is a French mathematician, and a theoretical physicist, known for his contributions to the study of operator algebras and noncommutative geometry. He is a Professor at the Collège de France, IHÉS, Ohio State University and Vanderbilt University. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1982.

Career[]

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Connes was an Invited Professor at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (2000).^[1]

Research[]

Alain Connes studies operator algebras. In his early work on von Neumann algebras in the 1970s, he succeeded in obtaining the almost complete classification of injective factors. He also formulated the Connes embedding problem. Following this, he made contributions in operator K-theory and index theory, which culminated in the Baum–Connes conjecture. He also introduced cyclic cohomology in the early 1980s as a first step in the study of noncommutative differential geometry. He was a member of Bourbaki.^[2]

Connes has applied his work in areas of mathematics and theoretical physics, including number theory, differential geometry and particle physics.^[3]

Awards and honours[]

Connes was awarded the Fields Medal in 1982,^[4][5] the Crafoord Prize in 2001^[6][7] and the gold medal of the CNRS in 2004. He was an invited speaker at the ICM in 1974 at Vancouver and in 1986 at Berkeley and a plenary speaker at the ICM in 1978 at Helsinki. He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and several foreign academies and societies, including the Danish Academy of Sciences, Norwegian Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, and US National Academy of Sciences.

Books[]

• Alain Connes and Matilde Marcolli, Noncommutative Geometry, Quantum Fields and Motives, Colloquium Publications, American Mathematical Society, 2007, ISBN 978-0821842102 [1]
• Alain Connes, Andre Lichnerowicz, and Marcel Paul Schutzenberger, Triangle of Thought, translated by Jennifer Gage, American Mathematical Society, 2001, ISBN 978-0821826140
• Jean-Pierre Changeux, and Alain Connes, Conversations on Mind, Matter, and Mathematics, translated by M. B. DeBevoise, Princeton University Press, 1998, ISBN 978-0691004051
• Alain Connes, Noncommutative Geometry, Academic Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0121858605^[8]

See also[]

• Bost–Connes system
• Cyclic category
• Cyclic homology
• Factor (functional analysis)
• Higgs boson
• C*-algebra
• Noncommutative quantum field theory
• M-theory
• Groupoid
• Spectral triple
• Criticism of non-standard analysis
• Riemann hypothesis

References[]

External links[]

• Alain Connes Official Web Site containing downloadable papers, and his book Non-commutative geometry, ISBN 0-12-185860-X.
• Alain Connes in nLab
• Alain Connes' Standard Model
• An interview with Alain Connes and a discussion about it
• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Alain Connes", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews
• Alain Connes at the Mathematics Genealogy Project