Jean-Michel Bismut

For the chemical element, see bismuth.

Jean-Michel Bismut
Jean-Michel Bismut in 2004 (photo from MFO)
Born	26 February 1948 (1948-02-26) Lisbon, Portugal
Nationality	France
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Université Paris-Sud
Alma mater	University of Paris
Doctoral advisor	Jacques-Louis Lions Jacques Neveu
Doctoral students	Patrick Cattiaux Kai Köhler

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

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 elected as a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1991.

Selected bibliography

•     (1986). "The Atiyah-Singer index theorem for families of Dirac operators: two heat equation proofs". Invent. Math 83: 91–151. 
•    ; Lebeau, G. (1992). "Complex immersions and Quillen metrics". Inst. Hautes Etudes Scientifiques Pub. Math. 74 (1991). 
•     (2005). "The hypoelliptic Laplacian on the cotangent bundle". J. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (2): 379–476. 

References

• J.-M.-Bismut
• Home page
• Jean-Michel Bismut at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.