Biography:Michel Las Vergnas
Michel Las Vergnas (11 January 1941 – 19 January 2013) was a French mathematician associated with Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University in Paris, and a research director emeritus at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique.[1][2]
Las Vergnas earned his Ph.D. in 1972 from Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University, under the supervision of Claude Berge.[3] He was one of the founders of the European Journal of Combinatorics, which began publishing in 1980.[4]
His initial research was in graph theory, and particularly in the theories of matching and connectivity.[1] Beginning in 1975, he became one of the pioneers of the theory of oriented matroids,[1][5][6] and since that time he was interested in connections between combinatorics and geometry.[1]
A workshop on combinatorial geometry, held in Marseilles in April 2013, was dedicated to his memory.[7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Michel Las Vergnas passed away , Equipe Combinatoire & Optimisation, Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University, retrieved 2013-11-03.
- ↑ Las Vergnas' home page at Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University, retrieved 2013-11-03.
- ↑ Michel Las Vergnas at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ List of founding editors of Eur J. Comb, Elsevier, retrieved 2013-11-03.
- ↑ http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fcarc-oriented1, AMS Feature Column, Joseph Malkevitch, retrieved 2013-11-03.
- ↑ Björner, Anders; Las Vergnas, Michel; Sturmfels, Bernd; White, Neil; Ziegler, Günter (1999). Oriented Matroids. Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Its Applications. 46 (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 150. ISBN 978-0-521-77750-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=k2an6eBxn3kC&pg=PA150..
- ↑ Workshop program, Combinatorial geometries: matroids, oriented matroids and applications, retrieved 2013-11-03.
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