Gérald Tenenbaum


Gérald Tenenbaum is a French mathematician and novelist, born in Nancy on 1 April 1952.

Biography

An alumnus of the École Polytechnique, he has been professor of mathematics at the Institut Élie Cartan at Henri Poincaré University since 1981.
An associate of Paul Erdős and specialist in analytic and probabilistic number theory, Gérald Tenenbaum received the A-X Gaston Julia prize in 1976, the Albert Châtelet medal in algebra and number theory in 1985 and, together with Michel Mendès France, the Paul-Émile Doistau Blutet prize from the French Academy of Sciences in 1999.
His novel L'Ordre des jours, published in 2008 by Héloïse d'Ormesson, received the Prix Erckmann-Chatrian the same year.

Selected bibliography

Mathematics