What is Jean-Pierre Kahane?
[[File:Jean-Pierre Kahane p1130884.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Kahane in 2006]] '''Jean-Pierre Kahane''' (11 December 1926 – 21 June 2017) was a [[France|French]] [[mathematician]]. He was born [[Paris]], [[France]]. Kahane attended the [[École normale supérieure]] and obtained the ''[[agrégation]]'' of mathematics in 1949. He then worked for the [[Centre national de la recherche scientifique|CNRS]] from 1949 to 1954, first as an intern and then as a research assistant. He defended his [[PhD]] in 1954; his advisor was [[Szolem Mandelbrojt]]. He was assistant [[professor]], then professor of mathematics at [[University of Montpellier]] from 1954 to 1961. Since then, he has been professor until his retirement in 1994,<ref>Kahane, Jean-Pierre.[http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/WAspad/UnTexteDeJorf?numjo=RESM9400652A Ministerial decision of 6 April 1994]</ref> then [[professor emeritus]] at the [[Université Paris-Sud]] in [[Orsay]]. Kahane died on 21 June 2017 in Paris, aged 90. ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * {{in lang|fr}} [http://www.academie-sciences.fr/academie/membre/Kahane_JP.htm Bio from the French Academy of Sciences] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140226054708/http://www.academie-sciences.fr/academie/membre/Kahane_JP.htm |date=2014-02-26 }} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Kahane, Jean Pierre}} [[Category:1926 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:Academics of Paris universities]] [[Category:French mathematicians]]