Jean-Marie Souriau

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Jean-Marie Souriau
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Souriau in 2010
Born(1922-06-03)3 June 1922
Died15 March 2012(2012-03-15) (aged 89)
NationalityFrench
Alma materONERA
École Normale Supérieure
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Provence
Doctoral advisorJoseph Pérès
André Lichnerowicz

Jean-Marie Souriau (3 June 1922 – 15 March 2012)[1] was a French mathematician, known for works in symplectic geometry, in which he was one of the pioneers. He published several works, a treatise on linear algebra [Sou64a], a treatise on relativity [Sou64b] and a treatise on [Sou70]. He developed the symplectic aspects of classical and quantum mechanics. He contributed to the introduction or the development of many important concepts, such as the coadjoint action and the of a group on its moment space, which led in particular to the first geometric interpretation of spin at a classical level. He introduced the moment map, he suggested a program of geometric quantization, he gave a classification of the homogeneous symplectic manifolds, known as the Kirillov-Kostant-Souriau theorem. Finally, he proposed a new approach to differential geometry by means of diffeologies.

He was educated at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, and spent most of his career as a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Provence in Marseille.

Bibliography[]

  • [Sou64a] J.-M. Souriau, Calcul linéaire, P.U.F., Paris, 1964.
  • [Sou64b] J.-M. Souriau, Géométrie et relativité, Hermann, 1964.
  • [Sou70] J.-M. Souriau, Structure des systèmes dynamiques, Dunod, Paris, 1970.
  • [Sou97] J.-M. Souriau, Structure of Dynamical Systems, Birkhäuser, Boston, 1997.

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References[]

  1. ^ "Décès de Jean-Marie Souriau" (in French). Société Mathématique de France. Archived from the original on 5 May 2012. Retrieved 19 March 2012.

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