Bernard Malgrange

Bernard Malgrange
Born	(1928-07-06) 6 July 1928 Paris
Nationality	French
Alma mater	Université Henri Poincaré
Known for	Ehrenpreis–Malgrange theorem Malgrange preparation theorem
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Doctoral advisor	Laurent Schwartz
Doctoral students	M. Salah Baouendi

Bernard Malgrange (born 6 July 1928) is a French mathematician who works on differential equations and singularity theory. He proved the Ehrenpreis–Malgrange theorem and the Malgrange preparation theorem, essential for the classification theorem of the elementary catastrophes of René Thom. He received his Ph.D. from Université Henri Poincaré (Nancy 1) in 1955. His advisor was Laurent Schwartz. He was elected to the Académie des sciences in 1988. In 2012 he gave the Łojasiewicz Lecture (on the "Differential algebraic groups") at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.

Publications

• Ideals of differentiable functions (Oxford University Press, 1966)
• Équations différentielles à coefficients polynomiaux, Progress in Mathematics (Birkhäuser, 1991).

External links

• Bernard Malgrange at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Académie des sciences page on Bernard Malgrange