Thierry Aubin

Thierry Aubin
Thierry Aubin in 1976 (photo by George Bergman)
Born	(1942-05-06)6 May 1942
Died	21 March 2009(2009-03-21) (aged 66)
Nationality	France
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Pierre and Marie Curie University
Doctoral advisor	André Lichnerowicz

Thierry Aubin (6 May 1942 – 21 March 2009) was a French mathematician who worked at the Centre de Mathématiques de Jussieu, and was a leading expert on Riemannian geometry and non-linear partial differential equations. His fundamental contributions to the theory of the Yamabe equation led, in conjunction with results of Trudinger and Schoen, to a proof of the Yamabe Conjecture: every compact Riemannian manifold can be conformally rescaled to produce a manifold of constant scalar curvature. Along with Yau, he also showed that Kähler manifolds with negative first Chern classes always admit Kähler–Einstein metrics, a result closely related to the Calabi conjecture. The latter result provides the largest class of known examples of compact Einstein manifolds. Aubin was the first mathematician to propose the Cartan–Hadamard conjecture.

Aubin was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1979.^[1] He was elected to the Académie des sciences in 2003.

Publications[]

• Nonlinear Analysis on Manifolds. Monge–Ampère Equations ISBN 0-387-90704-1
• A Course in Differential Geometry ISBN 0-8218-2709-X
• Some Nonlinear Problems in Riemannian Geometry ISBN 3-540-60752-8

References[]

External links[]

• Thierry Aubin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Obituary on the SMF Gazette

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