What is Michel Raynaud?
{{Infobox scientist | name = Michel Raynaud | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1938|06|16|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Riom]], [[France]] | death_date = {{death date and age|2018|3|10|1938|6|16|df=y}} | death_place = [[Paris]], France | nationality = [[France|French]] | fields = [[Mathematics]] | workplaces = [[Paris-Sud 11 University]] | alma_mater = Paris-Sud 11 University | doctoral_advisor = [[Alexander Grothendieck]] | doctoral_students = | known_for = Proving the [[Abhyankar's conjecture]], [[Manin-Mumford conjecture]] | awards = [[Cole Prize]] (1995)<br>[[Prize Ampère]] (1987) }} '''Michel Raynaud''' ({{IPA-fr|ʁɛno|lang}}; 16 June 1938 – 10 March 2018) was a [[France|French]] [[mathematician]]. He worked in [[algebraic geometry]]. He was a professor at [[Paris-Sud 11 University]]. In 1987 he received the [[Prize Ampère]] from the [[Académie des Sciences]]. In 1995 he received the [[Cole Prize]], together with [[David Harbater]], for his solution of the [[Abhyankar conjecture]]. In 1983 he published a proof of the [[Manin-Mumford conjecture]].<ref>{{cite book | first=Michel | last=Raynaud | author-link=Michel Raynaud | chapter=Sous-variétés d'une variété abélienne et points de torsion | language=fr | editor1-last=Artin | editor1-first=Michael | editor1-link=Michael Artin | editor2-last=Tate | editor2-first=John | editor2-link=John Tate | title=Arithmetic and geometry. Papers dedicated to I. R. Shafarevich on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. Vol. I: Arithmetic | series=Progress in Mathematics | volume=35 | publisher=Birkhauser-Boston | year=1983 | pages= 327–352 | zbl=0581.14031 }}</ref> Raynaud died in [[Paris]] on 10 March 2018 at the age of 79.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://smf.emath.fr/content/d%25C3%25A9c%25C3%25A8s-de-michel-raynaud |title=Décès de Michel Raynaud |last=Gassiat |first=Elisabeth |date=March 2018 |website=Société Mathématique de France |l