Yves Meyer
{{Short description|French mathematician}}
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University of Strasbourg
| thesis_title = Idéaux Fermés de L{{sup|1}} dans Lesquels une Suite Approche l'Identité
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| doctoral_advisor = Jean-Pierre Kahane
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Harmonious set
Meyer set
Meyer wavelet
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Onsager Medal (2018)
Abel Prize (2017)
Gauss Prize (2010)
Prix de l'État (1984)
ICM Speaker (1970, 1983, 1990)
Salem Prize (1970)
Peccot Lecture (1968/1969)
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Yves F. Meyer ({{IPA|fr|mɛjɛʁ|lang}}; born 19 July 1939) is a French mathematician. He is among the progenitors of wavelet theory, having proposed the Meyer wavelet. Meyer was awarded the Abel Prize in 2017.
Biography
Born in Paris, Yves Meyer studied at the Lycée Carnot in Tunis;{{cite web |url=http://www.lyceecarnotdetunis.com/ |title=Home |website=lyceecarnotdetunis.com}} he won the French General Student Competition (Concours Général) in Mathematics, and was placed first in the entrance examination for the École Normale Supérieure in 1957.[http://smai.emath.fr/IMG/pdf_Meyer_photo.pdf Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles : Yves Meyer.] He obtained his Ph.D. in 1966, under the supervision of Jean-Pierre Kahane.{{MathGenealogy|id=34970|title=Yves F. Meyer}} The Mexican historian Jean Meyer is his cousin.
Yves Meyer taught at the Prytanée national militaire during his military service (1960–1963), then was a teaching assistant at the Université de Strasbourg (1963–1966), a professor at Université Paris-Sud (1966–1980), a professor at École Polytechnique (1980–1986), a professor at Université Paris-Dauphine (1985–1995), a senior researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) (1995–1999), an invited professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (2000), a professor at École Normale Supérieure de Cachan (1999–2003), and has been a professor emeritus at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan since 2004.
He was awarded the 2010 Gauss Prize for fundamental contributions to number theory, operator theory and harmonic analysis, and his pivotal role in the development of wavelets and multiresolution analysis.{{Cite web|url=http://www.icm2010.org.in/prize-winners-2010/carl-friedrich-gauss-prize-yves-meyer|title=Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize – Yves Meyer|work=International Congress of Mathematicians 2010, Hyderabad, India|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100923083720/http://www.icm2010.org.in/prize-winners-2010/carl-friedrich-gauss-prize-yves-meyer|archive-date=23 September 2010|df=dmy-all}} He also received the 2017 Abel Prize "for his pivotal role in the development of the mathematical theory of wavelets."{{Cite web |title=2017: Yves Meyer |url=https://abelprize.no/abel-prize-laureates/2017 |access-date=22 July 2022 |website=www.abelprize.no |language=en}}{{cite journal | last1=Dundas | first1=Bjørn | last2=Skau | first2=Christian | title=Interview with Abel Laureate Yves Meyer | journal=EMS Newsletter | volume=2017-9 | issue=105 | date=2017 | issn=1027-488X | doi=10.4171/NEWS/105/5 | pages=14–22| doi-access=free }}
Publications
- {{cite book | last=Meyer | first=Yves | title=Nombres de Pisot, nombres de Salem, et analyse harmonique | publisher=Springer-Verlag | publication-place=Berlin New York | year=1970 | isbn=978-3-540-36243-2 | oclc=295014081 | language=fr}}
- {{cite book | title=Algebraic numbers and harmonic analysis | publisher=Elsevier Science | publication-place=Burlington | year=1972 | isbn=978-0-08-095412-7 | oclc=761646828}}
- {{cite book | last=Meyer | first=Yves | title=Ondelettes et opérateurs | publisher=Hermann | publication-place=Paris | year=1990 | isbn=978-2-7056-6125-0 | oclc=945745937 | language=fr}}
- {{cite book | last=Meyer | first=Yves | others=D. H. Salinger | title=Wavelets and Operators | publisher=Cambridge University Press | date=22 April 1993 | isbn=978-0-521-42000-6 | doi=10.1017/cbo9780511623820}}{{cite journal|author=Chui, Charles K.|title=Review: Wavelets and operators, by Yves Meyer; A friendly guide to wavelets, by Gerald Kaiser|journal=Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.)|year=1996|volume=33|issue=1|pages=131–134|url=http://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1996-33-01/S0273-0979-96-00635-0/|doi=10.1090/s0273-0979-96-00635-0|doi-access=free}}
Awards and recognitions
- He is a member of the Académie des Sciences since 1993.[http://www.academie-sciences.fr/academie/membre/Meyer_Yves.htm Académie des Sciences : Yves Meyer.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110809210426/http://www.academie-sciences.fr/academie/membre/Meyer_Yves.htm |date=9 August 2011 }}
- Meyer was an Invited Speaker at the ICM in 1970 in Nice, in 1983 in Warsaw,Meyer, Yves. [http://www.mathunion.org/ICM/ICM1983.2/Main/icm1983.2.1001.1010.ocr.pdf "Intégrales singulières, opérateurs multilinéaires, analyse complexe et équations aux dérivées partielles."] Proc. Intern. Cong. Math (1983): 1001–1010. and in 1990 in Kyoto.Meyer, Yves F. [http://www.mathunion.org/ICM/ICM1990.2/Main/icm1990.2.1619.1626.ocr.pdf "Wavelets and applications."] Proc. Intern. Cong. Math (1990): 1619–1626.
- In 2010, Yves Meyer was awarded the Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize.
- In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[http://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society], retrieved 4 February 2013.
- In 2017 he was awarded the Abel Prize for his pivotal role in developing the mathematical theory of wavelets.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/alexs-adventures-in-numberland/2017/mar/21/abel-prize-2017-yves-meyer-wins-maths-nobel-for-work-on-wavelets|title=Abel Prize 2017: Yves Meyer wins 'maths Nobel' for work on wavelets|date=21 March 2017|work=The Guardian}}
- In 2020 he received the Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research.{{cite web|title=Yves Meyer, Ingrid Daubechies, Terence Tao and Emmanuel Candès, Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research 2020|work=The Princess of Asturias Foundation |publisher=Princess of Asturias Foundation|url=https://www.fpa.es/en/princess-of-asturias-awards/laureates/2020-yves-meyer-ingrid-daubechies-terence-tao-and-emmanuel-candes.html|access-date=23 June 2020}}
See also
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References
External links
- [http://vimeo.com/26914687 Société Mathématiques de France : Lecture by Yves Meyer (2009)]
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- [http://www.icm2010.in/prize-winners-2010/carl-friedrich-gauss-prize-yves-meyer Gauss prize 2010]
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