Luc Illusie | |
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![]() Illusie in September 2014, while lecturing at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette, France. | |
Born | 1940 (age 84–85)[2] |
Nationality | French |
Awards | Émile Picard Medal (2012)[1] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Paris-Sud |
Doctoral advisor | Alexander Grothendieck[2] |
Doctoral students | Gérard Laumon |
Luc Illusie (French: [ilyzi]; born 1940)[2] is a French mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry. His most important work concerns the theory of the cotangent complex and deformations, crystalline cohomology and the De Rham–Witt complex, and logarithmic geometry.[2] In 2012, he was awarded the Émile Picard Medal of the French Academy of Sciences.