Jacques-Louis Lions (May 3, 1928 – May 17, 2001) was a French mathematician who made contributions to the theory of partial differential equations and to stochastic control, among other areas. He received the SIAM's John Von Neumann prize in 1986. Lions is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.
After being part of the French Résistance in 1943 and 1944, J.-L. Lions entered the Ecole Normale Supérieure in 1947. Professor of mathematics at the U...
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Jacques-Louis Lions (May 3, 1928 – May 17, 2001) was a French mathematician who made contributions to the theory of partial differential equations and to stochastic control, among other areas. He received the SIAM's John Von Neumann prize in 1986. Lions is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.
After being part of the French Résistance in 1943 and 1944, J.-L. Lions entered the Ecole Normale Supérieure in 1947. Professor of mathematics at the Université of Nancy, the Faculty of Sciences of Paris, and the Ecole Polytechnique, he joined the prestigious Collège de France as well as the French Academy of Sciences in 1973. In 1979, he was appointed director of the Institut National de la Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA), where he taught and promoted the use of numerical simulations using finite elements integration. Throughout his career, Lions insisted on the use of mathematics in industry, with a particular involvement in the French space program, as well as in domains...
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