Luc Illusie
Luc Illusie | |
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Illusie in September 2014, while lecturing at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette, France. | |
| Born | 1940 (age 84–85) |
| Nationality | French |
| Awards | Émile Picard Medal (2012) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Paris-Sud |
| Doctoral advisor | Alexander Grothendieck |
| Doctoral students | Gérard Laumon |
Luc Illusie (French: [ilyzi]; born 1940) is a French mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry. His most important work concerns the theory of the cotangent complex and deformations, crystalline cohomology and the De Rham–Witt complex, and logarithmic geometry. In 2012, he was awarded the Émile Picard Medal of the French Academy of Sciences.