Artur Avila, a Franco-Brazilian researcher, won the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics.
This is a good news on which jumped the executive in times of difficult market conditions. Francois Hollande, and Manuel Valls welcomed yesterday the Fields Medal awarded to Franco-Brazilian Artur Avila. The young scientist of thirty-five, born in Rio, won the most prestigious international distinction in mathematics, often compared to the Nobel Prize yesterday in Seoul, at the International Congress of Mathematicians, held every four years. Research Director of the CNRS, Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu, Paris Left Bank hosted by the University Paris Diderot, this specialist dynamic systems becomes the twelfth French researcher to receive the award since 1936 La France retains its second place World in the medal standings behind the United States, according to the CNRS.
Artur Avila demonstrates “the attractiveness of France in the field of research” welcomed Francois Hollande . It puts France “among the two world nations in math,” went further Manuel Valls.
The French mathematical excellence would first “cultural tradition” that runs from Descartes to Poincaré, says the president of the University Paris Diderot . Christine Clerici also highlights the system of great schools: “It’s very critical, she said, but most of the Fields medalists went through Normal sup. “ ” It is very well organized for the early identification of young good math students who will pursue preparatory classes and then at ENS, “ insists his side the president of the CNRS, Alain Fuchs. It also highlights “internationalization of the French school of mathematics” and “CNRS which offers the opportunity to focus on a long-term rather than spend a post-doctoral fellowship to another, as in other countries. “
Questions for the future
Questions arise, however for the future. “The decline of scientific employment is a threat, warns Christine Clerici. If you can no longer recruit researchers, the United States will. “ Alain Fuchs wants ” not sounding the alarm “ and prefer to talk about ” vigilance. “
Artur Avila is not of those who were spotted during their education in France. He did not Normale sup. He went straight to the College of France in 2001, was recruited at the CNRS in 2003 after failing to contest twice. It has French nationality for a year. But whatever. France needs icons … and good news.
Marie-Christine Corbier, Les Echos
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