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Frédéric Hélein

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Frédéric Hélein
Born22 April 1963 (1963-04-22) (age 61)
NationalityFrench
AwardsFermat Prize (1999)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsParis Diderot University
Doctoral advisorJean-Michel Coron

Frédéric Hélein (born 22 April 1963) is a French mathematician. He is university professor at Paris Diderot University.

Hélein earned his doctorate at École Polytechnique under supervision of Jean-Michel Coron. He won the 1999 Fermat Prize, jointly with Fabrice Bethuel, for several important contributions to the theory of variational calculus.