Étienne Fouvry

Étienne Fouvry (French pronunciation: [etjɛn fuvʁi], born 1953^[1]) is a French mathematician working primarily in analytic number theory.^[2]

Étienne Fouvry
Fouvry in 1986
Born	1953[1]
Nationality	France
Alma mater	University of Bordeaux
Awards	Sophie Germain Prize (2021)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Paris-Sud
Thesis	Repartitions des suites dans les progressions arithmetiques  (1981)
Doctoral advisors	Jean-Marc Deshouillers, Henryk Iwaniec
Website	www.math.u-psud.fr/~fouvry/

Fouvry defended his dissertation in 1981 at the University of Bordeaux under the joint direction of Henryk Iwaniec and Jean-Marc Deshouillers.^[3] He is an emeritus professor at Paris-Saclay University and the 2021 recipient of the Sophie Germain Prize.^[2]

In 1985, Fouvry showed that the first case of Fermat's Last Theorem is true for infinitely many primes.^[4]

References

1. "Fouvry, Étienne (1953–)". IdRef. Retrieved 2024-07-10.
2. "Étienne Fouvry: Hunting for prime numbers". Paris-Saclay University. 4 February 2022. Retrieved 2024-06-12.
3. Étienne Fouvry at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
4. Fouvry, Étienne (1985). "Théorème de Brun-Titchmarsh: application au théorème de Fermat" [The Brun-Titchmarsh theorem: application to the Fermat theorem]. Invent. Math. (in French). 79 (2): 383–407. Bibcode:1985InMat..79..383F. doi:10.1007/BF01388980. MR 0778134. S2CID 122719070.

External links

• Videos of Étienne Fouvry in the AV-Portal of the German National Library of Science and Technology