Alain Connes

Alain Connes (born April 1, 1947) is a French mathematician, currently Professor at the College de France (Paris, France), IHES (Bures-sur-Yvette, France) and Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee). He is a specialist of Von Neumann algebras and succeeded in completing the classification of factors of these objects.

The remarkable links between this subject, the tools he and others devised to tackle the problem and other subjects in theoretical physics, particle physics, differential geometry, made him emphasize Noncommutative geometry (name of his major book to date).

He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1982 and the Crafoord Prize in 2001.

See cyclic homology, factor (functional analysis), Higgs boson, C-star-algebra, M Theory, Groupoid, Jean Louis Loday.

External links

Alain Connes Official Web Site (http://www.alainconnes.org/)
Alain Connes Biography (http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Connes.html)

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