Alain_Connes

French mathematician, (1947 - )

Currently Full Professor at IHES (Bures sur Yvette, France).

Specialist of VonNeumannAlgebra s, he succeeded in completing the classification of factors of these objects.

The remarquable 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 NonCommutativeGeometry (name of his major book to date).

See CyclicHomology, VonNeumannAlgebraFactors, HiggsBoson, CStarAlgebra, MTheory, Groupoids, JeanLouisLoday.