Jean-Michel Bismut

For the chemical element, see bismuth.

Jean-Michel Bismut
File:Jean-Michel Bismut.jpg Jean-Michel Bismut in 2004 (photo from MFO)
Born	(1948-02-26) 26 February 1948 Lisbon, Portugal
Nationality	French
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Université Paris-Sud
Alma mater	Ecole Polytechnique
Doctoral advisor	Jacques-Louis Lions Jacques Neveu
Doctoral students	Patrick Cattiaux Kai Köhler
Known for	Probabilistic proof of Atiyah-Singer index theorem
Notable awards	Prix Ampère (French Academy of Sciences), 1990

Jean-Michel Bismut (born 26 February 1948) is a French mathematician who has been a Professor at the Université Paris-Sud since 1981.

His early work was related to stochastic differential equations, stochastic control, and Malliavin calculus, to which he made fundamental contributions, giving a probabilistic proof of Hörmander's theorem. He found a heat equation proof for the Atiyah–Singer index theorem. In 1990 he was awarded the Prix Ampere of the Academy of Sciences. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in the summer of 1984. He was elected as a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1991.

See also

• Bismut connection
• Atiyah–Singer index theorem
• List of École Polytechnique alumni

External links

• Jean-Michel Bismut at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Jean-Michel Bismut's Home page